Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

Normally, when youre working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.

I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.

My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood.

I love '30 Rock.' Absolutely love it. It's a game-changing show.

Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a female narrative.

I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would love it if I could.