I've always felt that an independent film is a film that almost doesn't get made.

I knew the term Stepford Wife, and I knew what that meant. I never read the book, and I think before I started filming I watched the movie. I thought it was very dated.

I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.

People think that the ocean is big enough to sustain anything we throw at it - its hard to get into your head that it's actually finite.

With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools.

I'm an actor, that's my contribution.

I don't think the tabloids find me very interesting.