I don't feel like my films are about gender; they are about identity - but a different slant on identity.

I don't know if my films are about women in a kind of frolicking - here's a grab bag of women's issues. They are about women of substance with very particular stories.

In May 2006, I had our son, Calder. I spent the next couple of years learning how to be a mom.

In June 2002, I had just finished 'Laurel Canyon' and decided to move back to Los Angeles after nearly a decade in New York. Post-9/11 New York felt different.

The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.

Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development.

The media tries to do what they do. You can't stop. You gotta get money.

My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.