Alice Hoffman

Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.

They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.

The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe.

When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.