I Love What You Might Call Brutal

[on Lisa Kudrow:] She's Like The Best Kind Of Jazz There Is. You Don't Know What Note She's Going To Hit And It's Always A Surprise.

And The Insidious Thing Is That People Will Either See A Movie Because It Did Well Last Weekend Or Won't See It Because It Didn't Do Well.

All Of [motherhood] Surprised Me. It Surprised Me From The Very First Second I Saw Jack. I'd Believed That My Pregnancy Was A Condition. It Never Computed. And There He Was. Everyone Made Fun Of Me Because I Stared At Him For Months And Months, Not Being Able To Believe He Was Real.

I Think There's An Ongoing Effort Involved In Trying To Get A Bigger Perspective, Trying To Let Go Of Things That Limit Your Capacity To Love And Be Loved Or Your Capacity To Hear And To Really Speak.

A L Lot Of Films I've Done Are Essentially About Women Who Are Finding Their Voice, Women Who Don't Know Themselves Well.