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.

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.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.