It's thematic in my career, if you look at most of my choices. It is some level of exploration of maternal angst and maternal heroism.

I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

Music is what our feelings sound like.

There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.

In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.

No role is more challenging, rewarding and inspiring than my real-life role as a mom and a wife.

There's no wrong way to experience a film.

Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.

I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.

I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.

Do you wish to speak in Provençal, French, or Latin? They are all I can manage, I'm afraid.""Any will do, " the rabbi replied in Provençal."Splendid. Latin it is, " said Pope Clement.

You can twist perception, reality won't budge

If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.

I'm from Winnipeg, you idiot!

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty

Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favourable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.

It's everywhere, constant criticism of women's appearance in magazines and online. It's not easy to navigate.

The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves