When I'm traveling to promote my book, I feel like an artful impostor. What I really am is when I'm in my (painter's) studio and when I'm writing. With actors, it's the same thing. They're kind of artful impostors in public. When you get to know them, they're different people.

I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don't know anything about men.

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you

When I was photographed, I didn't feel I was acting. I just felt I was being photographed. It sort of taught me things about myself that I didn't know and was trying to find out.

I don't think age has anything to do with what you write about.

...that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.

You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.