If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.

I had a romantic, 'Aren't I a good girl?' take on divorce, but the truth is that was stupid.

I can't remember when I wasn't an animal rights activist.

Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans.

I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again.

My parents made no money whatsoever, but they really knew how to see, as artists. So a big adventure might be, on a hot, dreadful day with no place to go, to go out and draw our chickens with pastels. My parents gave me a sense of wonder.

There are so many kinds of love, and they're all very intense for me.