I think everybody has a hard time connecting, but as you get older and you want more and you expect more and you know more, it's just different. If you start wanting too much from it without it naturally unfolding, then that makes it bad. If you start not wanting anything, then you are not serious. I mean it's just this conundrum of issues.

That's the wonderful thing about drama and writing and fiction: it's this wonderful shared experience that we all have. We can see into each other's lives.

And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.

I still love the people I’ve loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them.

It's an interesting thing to be in your forties and evaluate success and take ownership of some disasters and some pain and try to forgive a little bit - yourself and others.

I certainly know I have been blessed with much more empathy than I ever knew I would feel for other people.

We never left a set until we'd trashed it.