The different tempos and yeah, it's cadence. It's the way she moves through space, it's gestures.

I have a two-year-old who just turned three, and my four-year-old just turned five. I have the same irrational feelings taking them to pre-school. It's this charged combination of stress and joy and anxiety and excitement. When they're away, you've got a sudden loss of purpose and this ever-present fear about the kid's welfare. The departure of our children from our nest is not an easy thing.

The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'

I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse'.

We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.

It's terrifying to be the lead. There's a moment of excitement, and then pure terror.

The experience of giving birth itself made me feel more womanly.