Catherine Reitman Quotes

I have two children. I gave up a lot for my career, but I'm very happy for it. I've done what I've always thought was best for me and my family.

I'm a hard worker and love my work. I have felt pulled toward work. And it's a pull I have ferociously had to counter to make room for my family.

When you're shooting a film, you really don't get to be a dad, and you don't really get to be a husband. You don't really exist at all. But I do drag my family with me on location whenever I can.

Sometimes when you are a great mom, you're not so great at your job. And then when you're good at your job, you're not so great of a mom or a good wife. It's a dance that never stops. But it's beautiful.

I pretty much live about 10 minutes from my office. I have two kids, and I have about 8 projects that I'm working on, so I basically just get up and go to work, and go home every night and play with my kids, so I don't really know.

I love my work, but there is no price you can put on what you miss when you are away from your kids.

I love being a mum but I do love to work too.

I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.

When I look back, I did what I had to do for business and then fit family life into it.

My family responsibilities don't conflict with my career. Not at all.

I've always been very aware of balance and, even before I had a child, my life always takes priority to my work.

I have always been very choosy, but as you grow older, your tolerance for crap becomes less. The role I will do today has to justify the time I take away from my kids and my husband. I love them, spend a lot of time with them and love doing things for them. So to go away for three to six months, I need something equally powerful.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

I wanted a family, but before I had a family, I was a career person. I've tried to marry those two things, and sometimes it is successful, and sometimes it is not.

For me, the family is more important, of course! I don't want to change my family, or situation, for work. But I think it is possible for these things not to fight each other.

Over the years, I've seen how being a soloist and having a family can really work.

Being a chef isn't the ideal career to intersect with parenting, but I try to be in my kids' lives as much as possible.

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

'Wings' offered me the rare opportunity to be a full-time dad and a working actor for eight years.

I actually have two children now, and sometimes I wonder if that's it. Because they do make writing and directing more complicated and more difficult, especially now that they're very young.

I loved teaching, but every day that I went to work, I carried the worry that I was hurting my kids because I wasn't at home with them.

I adore my family; they are my joy. However, I am committed to my work. If, on a Saturday morning when I was ostensibly going to be with the children, and something arose at RADA or at UNICEF or at the orphanage or whatever, I would allow the other pressures to take precedent.

I think the hardest part of being a working mom is that I miss my kids a lot.

I want to work, but the balance to find between working and being a mom is challenging.

I tried taking a year off when Pedro was a toddler because I really wanted to be around, but it wasn't good for any of us.