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.

With being a mother, I feel like you choose how you spend your time so much more carefully - which is a good thing.

In fact, there's an entire universe out there that's pretty much indifferent to struggles that big, no matter how serious they've been in your life.

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 think it's a universal thing in every family, that people have their own specific versions of pivotal events or even small memories.

So I decided to make a film about our need to tell stories, to own our stories, to understand them, and to have them heard.

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