We've been in nightmare mode for the last couple of weeks.

This has taken so long and been so labor-intensive this year that the thought of having to start all over again with a new vendor, and a new format that we don't know about, is just terrifying. I'm just hoping they've worked out all the kinks this year.

The state board has bent over backward to be helpful to the schools and to be available to us; they have answered every call and every question, sometimes within minutes. If they had not been so nice, this would have been a lot worse for us now.

I stopped watching television like a fiend once I got into college.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin.