We've become obsessed with beauty and the fountain of youth and, frankly, I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.

I have to live for me. I have to do what I need to do for me, and I have stopped concerning myself with what people say.

It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.

Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.

But I just don't think it's an abyss of nothingness [after death] and that we fall off and that our journey stops. I think it's circular and we go and we go and we go. I know that there are civilizations that I think are way more sophisticated than we are and I think more sophisticated civilizations lived before us.

I wish all men were like dogs.

Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.