A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You've defined my entire life for me on the screen.

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

I like to run, to go down the stairs, I'm one of those kind of people.

I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine.

I want to be an actress, not a personality.

I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up.

I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.

Well, this would be nice if it worked out, but I'm not selling the farm.

People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

I notice now, whatever character in whatever movie youre watching, they have these toned arms and muscles.

Future strong is letting go of what no longer serves you. Quickly.

Smile like the sun and radiate your light and make this world bright.

Husbands are the leftovers of a stew called love –she thought—, and with hair on their faces.

I'm not very ambitious at all.

When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.

Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?

All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.

Growth in grace is one way to be happy in our religion. God has wisely linked together our comfort and our increase in holiness.

I didn't come from a household where my mother dragged me outside and said, "You'd better fight." My mother wouldn't let me fight. I was not an aggressive kid.

My working life is me doing what I want to do. This is that. I've made movies that people don't go to see.