Good roles are hard to find no matter what age.

Good roles are hard to find no matter what age.

I think there's something thrilling about going into a movie house and seeing everything on such a huge screen. I think we're in a culture now that is confronted with various sizes of screens, the biggest movie houses and then the smallest iPods.

It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness.

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.

Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.

I think there are certain actors that have that kind of energy about them, that taking over a room energy.