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

"You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation."

"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 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."

"Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"

"A resilient spirit knows that authenticity is the rarest and most beautiful asset."

"Beauty is a short-lived tyranny."

"The beauty of the unknown is that the most profound truths are found in silence."