When you shoot a scene, you remember every moment. You remember when your head went down, your head went up. You don't see little quirks, little eye movements, little lip movements. Once again, you become completely vain when you're watching it in a way that you weren't when you were shooting it. And the vanity, what it makes you focus on are everything that has nothing to do with the scene and everything to do with your own ego.

It made me realize again how complicated being a mother is. You have 50 million heartbreaking moments, and 100 million beautiful, joyous ones.

I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.

As an artist, you've got to see the mess. That's what we do. We get a human being, and it's like putting together a puzzle. And the puzzle has got to be a mixture, a multifaceted mixture of human emotions, and not all of it is going to be pretty.

Lloyd Richards is another director who was like that, who was a teacher.

Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one's balance. I think that it's very damaging.

I don't have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn't love me has to say about me.