Whether youre making a million dollar film or a $100 million film there is never enough money, theres never enough time.

I'm thinking about anything and everything. I'm making stuff up in my head, I'm using sense memory. Sometimes when it doesn't come and you've got no choice because you're getting paid to do it, you grasp at straws. It's always easy now with my kids. I just create some "what-ifs" in my head, something horrible that would devastate me as a mother.

I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.

Whenever I wore it there were some questions whether the outfit was just too over the top. I'm like, "Do you know who you're dealing with here, and her eccentricities, her style, her flair?" These little things were sometimes those - I love it. I love having a real-life model. But I also do flush it out with my own personal experiences and my own essence, and hopefully they mesh together.

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

I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.

There really are three types of religious movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.