I feel like we want women to be simpler, less complex, so we project a lot of versions of simplicity onto them to fit that.

I think that I get different kinds of joy out of directing a film and acting, and it's sort of necessary to just be doing one and focusing on that. I'm in awe of anyone who tries to be an actor-director, so I couldn't really see that.

I just feel like it's so amazing every few years when I'm not making a film to act and basically go back to film school and just watch other filmmakers work and try to be a part of somebody else's vision. So I feel like you do use two very different parts of your brain, and it's great to be able to jump back and forth.

I think that the idea of family is a very powerful and influential and disjointed thing that will always captivate me.

I want my world to get bigger and not end up in a small corner.

I enjoy doing my more intimate and less commercial pictures and also I enjoy directing.

It's amazing how the world does actually go on in the middle of things that should stop it for us.