» “Then I became a mother and it just fills every space, that isn’t filled with something else important. It’s just like this incredible balloon that blows up and fills life up.” – on motherhood

» “I just feel like it’s got to be about the process and about the doing of it, rather than be about how it’s going to be perceived. It’s got to be about what it feels like at the time of actually making that project, because just a few times I’ve worked on projects because I think that it will seem great, or it will be a really good career move or about perception and I haven’t had a good time.”

» “The film is driven by coincidence and preconception, … Each character, whether they be rich, poor, black, white, Mexican or Iraqi, suffers these preconceptions about the other as a manifestation of personal frustration. You see the characters’ motivation and see that behind the belligerent cop is a man in pain, behind the frustrated housewife is a woman who feels let down. Racism is just one part of the much bigger puzzle that the film offers.” – about the movie “Crash”

» “You’re not actually thinking about kissing – you’re thinking, ‘Is my face in the right place, is my hair there, oh my God, you can see my nipple.’” – on filming love scenes

» “I think I’ll probably write something, a family drama. I’m good at frame works and plots, but my dialogue is atrocious. It gets very over-wrought. My husband’s a writer and his dialogue is brilliant, so, I’m very often his script-editor, so I think we’ll probably write something together.”