I hate table reads. I hate anything where you have to say the words out loud.

As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch, and it's so easy to just have a great writer write you a line.

You have to discipline yourself and not carry the character with you. You need to switch it off and take time to re-energize.

Of course you want your son, your children, to be proud of you.

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

My interests still are my interests. That doesn't make me a bad mother. I think that makes me a really good mother, because when I go and creatively satisfy myself and those interests, I come home satisfied.

You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.