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I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.

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.

You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.

There's love for your parents, your family, your spouse, your partner, your friends, but the nature of the connection you have with your child, there's nothing like it. It has its own character and it's so serious and so powerful, and so it's a prism through which I see everything.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

You know the best part of being a mom is getting that love. Honestly, you know, my son's love... a child's love is so pure, it just makes you feel so good no matter what.

Everybody always tells you what an awesome and unique experience being a parent is. Words can never do the feeling justice.

I realized relatively early on that I had no desire to be a mother whatsoever. I actually love children, but specifically other people's.

Being a dad is like - there's nothing more important. So the exploration of that in stories, with parents and fathers and brothers, siblings, I just think that you're always in the terrain of love, whether it's absence of love or the giving of love or the desire for love.

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.