Being powerful is so much more interesting than being beautiful.

Film is a wonderful thing and it can be so many different things. I don't want to turn my back on any of the different ways movies can be. I love the movies. I love going to the films. I like very serious films, I love foreign films, and I love big, fun movies - as long as they're well made and they've got good scripts. That's the most important thing.

The poor Oscars - they always get slammed in the press.

In Shakespeare's day it was women who were being burned at the stake as witches... not men. The men were thought of as alchemists. But women doing the same thing would be a witch and would be burned.

I don't throw a lot of parties. I find throwing parties a bit intimidating.

I don't share lots of the phobias that horror movies tap into. I don't mind spiders or snakes or darkness.

People with Parkinson's are not some weird people on the edge of human experience.