It is not where you start out in life that counts the most, it is how you choose to face it.

To be in any way a positive contribution, that's all anybody wants to be. It's all I've ever wanted to be. I wanted to be an artist, be a mother. You want to feel that in your life you've been of use, in whatever way that comes out.

On the superficiality of the industry: We are setting an example of what we think is beautiful and you really want to put that much make up on me?

This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.

I know my children will never have to say, 'Mom died of ovarian cancer.'

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we're able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.