It's one of the things that weirdly I always used to like about my job: that expressing the emotions of a writer or someone creative and breathing empathy and life into a character people can then identify with, that they'd feel less alone.

It's taken me a long time to learn to accept the risks and just be willing to try it over and over again.

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.

It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.

There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.

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

If you're not ready to be in a relationship, going out with someone much younger than you is probably a great idea, because you both can have a decent experience and hopefully nobody will end up feeling cheated when it ends.