The Hardest Thing About Writing Is Writing.

If Your Husband Is Cheating On You With A Carhop, Get Meryl Streep To Play You. You'll Feel Much Better.

With Any Child Entering Adolescence, One Hunts For Signs Of Health, Is Desperate For The Smallest Indication That The Child's Problems Will Never Be Important Enough For A Television Movie.

I’m Really Not Interested In Women As Victims. Look At Me, I Get The Last Laugh ‘cause I Get To Be Funny About It.

Most Directors, I Discovered, Need To Be Convinced That The Screenplay They're Going To Direct Has Something To Do With Them. And This Is A Tricky Thing If You Write Screenplays Where Women Have Parts That Are Equal To Or Greater Than The Male Part. And I Thought, 'why Am I Out There Looking For Directors?'—because You Look At A List Of Directors, It's All Boys. It Certainly Was When I Started As A Screenwriter. So I Thought, 'i'm Just Gonna Become A Director And That'll Make It Easier.'

I've Always Felt That One Of The Mistakes People Make Is That They Try To Do Something That Is Just Slightly Beyond Their Skill Set, And Then Feel They've Failed.