You know what's more difficult to do organically? Laughing. It's actually one of the hardest things to do on camera.

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.

I have found my way, step by step, proceeding from touch points that have emerged, some through conscious choice and some through dream state discovery.

A parent who cannot provide the basic needs of two children, must not even bear one.

Madoka: I want to erase the tears of all those who trusted in hope. I want them to be left with a smile on their faces.

After riding like a moron all over the place, observes the face of an Indian when he crashes. He is stunned.

Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.

We always do what's natural, only sometimes we shouldn't do it.

We are all interconnected in a web of kindness from which it is impossible to separate ourself.

Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.

The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.