“The candid and honest and pure heartedness of children has strengthened my views…” — Nia Vardalos

I never card out a movie. You know how people will outline or card? I don't do that. I tend to start with an idea and go.

America was founded on immigrants. The immigrant experience is common to all of us.

I think there is a moment in every parent's life where we realize that we have lost ourselves a little bit. It's a moment of looking in the mirror and going, 'I need to put on some lipstick.'

On my daughter's first day of kindergarten, another mom said something that made me realize I had become my own Greek, suffocating mother. She said, 'Just think, in 13 years they'll leave us and go to college!' And I went, 'Gulp.'