What she missed most about dating men was that small, disconcerting time frame when you thought that maybe you could change them.

You go around and you do things and you don't know why you do them," she said. "And that's the story of your gender writ large.

Were all men separated from their children and wives by an invisible ribbon of cluelessness?

I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low self-esteem - the way that all comes together on the screen? Delicious.