If a person is confident enough in the way they feel, whether it's an art form or whether it's just in life, it comes off---you don't have anything to prove; you can just be who you are.

I do believe in self-help.

You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about. And I think we're at a point now where a lot of older women take better care of themselves, compared to the 1940s and '50s when women were programmed to figure it's all over after 30.

Conflict is the basis of drama. I guess that goes back as long as time has existed as far as mankind is concerned, dating back to the Greek tragedies or the Old Testament. And violence is a form of conflict, so whether that's catharsis or whether that has some socially damaging effect on audiences - I suppose that would just depend.

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.