It took a while for me to be able to sit in a room of studios and financiers and say, "I'm not some hoity-toity actress looking for a vanity deal - I really know how to make a film!" In order to do that, you've got to break your f-cking back.

Tommy [ Lee Jones] doesn't suffer fools easily. I think everybody knows that, but I have great respect for someone that's very direct and very honest. I don't have thin skin so I'm okay with that.

I don't like rehearsal.

You just don't know if you'll be around tomorrow. You just don't.

I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films.

Blade Runner was an incredibly influential movie, in terms of the way that it envisioned what the future was going to look like.

I was going to go to Macchu Picchu and then I just ended up working the whole year.