[The close wins] say we're not going down without a fight. We're going to come back. If you think you have us down, you got us wrong. You may get up on us, but we're going to come back in the end and bite you. We don't give up at all; we fight.

We're finally jelling as a team. We saw glimpses of it all season. But now we're putting everything together every time we step on the field.

It is never death because they live in your heart foever.

Me, to my husband while searching for my keys and wallet the other morning: "Jake, we spend half our lives searching for the things we lost." Jake: "That's deep."

You have these relationships with people that you care about, but I also try to stick to my job as filmmaker and be fair and truthful about what I saw and my experience of the people, hopefully informed by a deep understanding of them.

Movies are great fun and wonderful when they're good. But you never get to see them till six months after they're finished. So you never get a sense of whether they're really well liked or how good they are. And you don't really know what the finished product is going to be like, because it's a director's medium.