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"Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing."
"The older you get, the more you realize that the way you look is a reflection of how you treat yourself."
"There's nothing I love more than a good cry."
"I feel like I'm one of the happiest people I know."
"I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a strange and fascinating country, and instead of learning about it through a textbook, I would rather discover its history and traditions and institutions through fiction and nonfiction writers."
"I have a husband and children, and it affects me deeply that somebody could be taken away in a second."
"But I think Hillary Clinton is one of the most amazing women of this time."
"I'm not really high-strung now, but I was a very high-strung child."
"I'm not at a point in my life when I'm analyzing too much."
"I'm a New Yorker, and I rarely get to work at home."
"I get to play a lot of hysterics."
"I like to work. I enjoy once a year, doing a film."
"I've been lucky. I've made films that I really like. It's been a combination of what comes to me and what I choose. I've gone after lots of things that I didn't get, pet projects that everybody ends up chasing after. Really, you're lucky if you get anything."
"Storytelling is what lights my fire."
"I'm usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl."
"I'm way too disorganized."
"I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work."
"It's too easy to sum up a person's character in one negative instant, and it doesn't put anything good out into the world."
"I always step on the plane with my right foot and touch the outside of the plane with my left hand. Sometimes you know there's someone standing there to welcome you to the plane and I have to kind of get them to move a little bit so I can put my hand on the outside of the plane. It's not a natural thing to be up in the sky in a little metal tube."
"I have not spent years in therapy; I tried therapy in my mid-twenties, and it did not go very well. I just thought, 'This is so not for me. I would rather talk to one of my girlfriends.' I'm not at a point in my life when I'm analyzing too much. I have young children, and I'm just pretty much crazed."