I judged my mother much too harshly for her dating life. Being her only child, I wanted her completely to myself.

He's dating again, ... He's out there and it's comparatively a breeze for him, at 71, of course, because he's a guy. We deal with that in the movie, and it is quite funny.

It was where my mother, Virginia Graces, spent the last year and a half of her life. They were really very good to her there, and every time I go, I think of Mom.

I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen.

For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career.

I was, I think, extremely lucky, because the minute I saw my face plastered on 'Time' magazine in the subway with my mother, I just said, 'Wow.' And it made 'Time' magazine come down to life-size scale.