It's fun to be loose. Just like on stage, all of your great ideas come from looseness.

When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.

I was shooting one day and it struck me that I was the age that Shirley MacLaine was when she played my mother. I had to sit down. I had to get a chair, okay? It was a weird moment.

I will walk out on a scene if it's all lit and ready to go but it's not happening.

I tend to wear outfits that match the walls.

I think that we definitely deal with that issue and don't ignore it, the issue of drink, but that's not where it ends. I just think that what the fear is that you think alcoholic writer or whatever and you forget the intelligence that can be present. I mean so many people just write off someone who drinks as one thing.

My grandmother gave birth to 13 children and I come from a long line of women who gave birth in their 40s.