"I don't think I ever got the hang of the writers' room. I love collaborating with people, but I really do my best work alone, and I think I would want to - if I did something again, I think I'd want to take total ownership the way Aaron Sorkin or David Kelley does."

"You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I'm glad it's over."

"I had the experience last year of directing my first feature while I had a 1-year-old son and while I was also pregnant, so I am now well aware of the difficulties women who are rearing children face when they're also trying to make headway in mainstream of film."

"I'm not an especially highbrow person, but I have always loved small, quirky, edgy movies."

"The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall."

"In the tapestry of human existence, every trial adds depth to the design. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Do not hurry what nature takes seasons to unfold. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds."

"Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers."