When I look up at the screen and see myself I always have to laugh. Not because I think I'm doing a horrible job, quite the contrary, I just feel it's so surreal to feel like one person can entertain so many at one time.

I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one would ever consider me for a movie that took place south of Providence.

I try to cast really good actors and give them a chance to do their very best work, give them as much time and space as they need.

I have a good instinct for what's real and what's not. I don't have to second-guess myself.

There's a lot of romance to sort of living by your own rules and sort of not subscribing to what society tells you to do, but society pushes back pretty strongly, so there's a lot of compromise that goes with that.

You know George M. Steinbrenner III is the center of all evil in the universe.

Well I've never used that phrase before, but yes she is bootylicious.