People talk about the golden age of Hollywood because of how women were lit then. You could be Joan Crawford and Bette Davis and work well into your 50s, because you were lit and made into a goddess. Now, with everything being sort of gritty, women have this sense of their use-by date.

Please, I need you to save my ass.

When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

Becoming artistic directors is an enormous responsibility and not one that we take lightly.

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

You can't really watch a theater performance by yourself. You can watch a movie by yourself, though.

I think you're peripatetic when you work in this industry. My husband and I are assuming the role of co-artistic directors at the Sydney Theatre Company in 2008. But as long as the film industry will have me, I will have it.