And I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is my new favorite role, but I don't want to just do it and become Nurse Ratchett.

In your teens, you think you know everything, and you know nothing. By your thirties, you're sure you know nothing, but you're happy with that.

Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work.

It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticize you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.

I'm not quite ready for a no makeup movie.

I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.

Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.