It's hard - truthfully the main thing other than work is just making sure that I'm spending enough time with michelle and the girls. The big advantage I have is that I live above the store - so I have no commute! So we make sure that when I'm in DC I never miss dinner with them at 6:30 pm - even if I have to go back down to the Oval for work later in the evening. I do work out every morning as well, and try to get a basketball or golf game in on the weekends just to get out of the bubble.

You have to make sacrifices on either side. You also to have an understanding family, to know that there are going to be some sacrifices.

It is possible to be a good scientist, a good mother and have a family and even bake a cake.

I would be able to shoot even more if I didn’t have the promotion and all these kinds of things to do. I would do it like Fassbinder — seven films a year — if I could. Making films is a pleasure for me.

really watching a lot of work. Also finding the right people to associate with and learn from in terms of work.

Most of what I do is just managing feelings, emotions, and thoughts

I am my target audience

I just don't really see the dialectic between inside and outside, and corporate and revolutionary, as being as cut and dry as I used to.

pick one job and delegate all the other tasks.

William Greaves’s film Symbiopsychotaxiplasm was an important early influence…Stuart Hall was a massive influence on this film