I've always been very aware of balance and, even before I had a child, my life always takes priority to my work.

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

I think people say women come into their prime in their 40s. And then for some reason our society just wants to go... it's like a dead flower.

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I don't want to be anything other than what we are. I want to just be a woman.

I do this because I'm an observer of people. That's why I want to be an actor. I'm fascinated by human beings and the circumstances they find themselves in.

I'd be unbelievably wrong to say there isn't such a thing as the right place, right time-luck.

Whatever field you can do that, that's where you want to do it, and I think that's why people like David Fincher and Ridley Scott are interested in it, too, because when you sit down on a meeting in HBO and they're like, "More, more." You're just like, "Oh yeah, I love this." Sometimes it's a little harder in film. I think also it's a great audience, take advantage of it. It's a great audience.