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When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

We all work hard to understand the dynamic relationship we have with a parent.

I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.

I think seeing the love between a mother and child is something we can all really relate to. You can remember it from your own childhood perspective.

The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.

I love exploring the relationship between fathers and daughters. I think that's a special thing, especially with daughters who are dealing with being adults.

I have such admiration for single mothers. I simply don't comprehend how you'd cope with that intensity, the lack of breaks, ever, on your own.

My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life.

It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.