I think that film festivals, we're very often given to understand, are about filmmakers and about films and about the industry of filmmaking. I don't believe that they are, I believe that film festivals are about film audiences, and about giving an audience the encouragement to feel really empowered and to stretch the elastic of their taste.

In The Deep End, you have a woman who looks like a J. Crew mother who can manage it all. Then we begin to realize what's going on inside. Every time I see one of those women stuck at a stoplight with the children in the back of her car, I sort of think, "What have you just done? What's going on in your life?".

I am the only living person in the English speaking world who didn't have the Narnia books as a child.

I think there's a dishonorable tradition in Hollywood to give the idea, particularly to children, that evil characters are dark.

As a performer, I'm constantly fascinated with the idea of being able to know what anybody else's experience is, and how misleading all informatives, like appearance, can be.

I made The War Zone when I had just given birth to twins, and my post-partum frame was very much on display there.

In my house, a hot dog is a dog that's really hot.