I think if I was ever really going to be more serious about writing I'd have to try and find some way to do it with other people. I do find the silence kind of eerie.

When you're on stage, you build strong relationships with the actors, but it's a story you tell with the audience - you have to include them, you have to respond to them, they have to understand the narrative.

I think it's very repressive for a woman to be constantly told that she has to make films about women to better represent women, but then the reverse is not found.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

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

I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!

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