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

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.

I've always been such a fan of short films - in fact, I never considered that I would actually make a feature. I just thought I wanted to make shorts for the rest of my life. They are a lot harder to have shown and a lot harder to find and see as an audience, but I don't know. It's just a form that I really love. I was just making them for the process, but ultimately, I did get them into festivals, and they did end up on television, and they had as much of a life as short films can.

The ways in which people are damaged are the ways in which they're strong. It's what makes people interesting - what they've overcome and how, and what they haven't and how that's become a good thing. Almost everyone's life is both a gorgeous story and a tragedy. I think being alive is really, really hard, and I'm constantly stunned and amazed by people who make it interesting and beautiful.

I think that cynicism can often be mistaken for wisdom.

I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.