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

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'm a control freak and I like to be overprepared, and I'm overly organized and I'm not in the moment a lot of the time.

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

I've always known that I've wanted to write, but I always saw myself doing that in the context of something other than film, so it was a really beautiful and kind of perfect moment in my life when I realized that I could combine this idea of wanting to write and tell my own stories with the environment I had grown up in and knew well - that I could make film as opposed to writing being a departure from what I knew.

Some of the funniest moments I've ever experienced have been in the midst of tragic situations in my life.

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