To watch how lovingly your children parent their own children is to know profound achievement.

There's always been a shortage of roles for three-dimensional women, no matter what age. If you look at the statistics on women in film, be they behind the camera or in front of the camera, and it's pretty nauseous-making. It always has been.

But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.

My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.

I am such a notorious hermit - almost pathological. And, I'm not a hoarder. But that's just a symptom of things that I do feel.

I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.

To watch how lovingly your children parent their own children is to know profound achievement.