There's an instant access to luxury that I think women really appreciate.

You choose the life you want for yourself, and then you just shut up and go about it. That's how I've lived my life.

I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.

I always knew I would adopt. Always.

So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that.

I don't believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to pick yourself up and to move on.

Well, life is dark. We live in a very dark world. When they call them "dark films" it annoys me, because they're very real stories. They're stories I have seen or experienced or witnessed, and coming from that place, that is the hope of humanity.