One of the inspiring things about Susan Sarandon career is that there's a quality of real fearlessness in it - you seem to be in it for the challenge and the experience.

Success is like a mountain in front of you that keeps growing. If you're not careful, it will take up your whole life.

I'm turning 58, and you get that kind of weird, old-guy feeling of you don't have an infinite number of years left and if there's anything you want to say or represent, it's time to try it.

...smile first, then speak.

As one gets older, this question of death, becomes more vexing and urgent.

In fact unrestrained capitalism is quite cruel and the cost is on the individual human, on his or her grace.

If you start with the idea that you are going to be writing about a night in a graveyard, and that there are only a few living people in that frame, all sorts of interesting and difficult technical problems arise. And then form - new form, or experimental form - might be understood as just trying to tell that story most movingly and efficiently.