I always thought that's the exact metaphor, the perfect metaphor for acting. To go blind, to ignore the danger, and to totally trust.

Once you have made the decision to do the film, once you have identified the desire and all the deep and personal, intimate, artistic reasons why you want to do the film, then it's more a matter of how to do things

For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!

I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.

My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.

I was the youngest of five, and I think my mother always knew I was meant to be an actress.

If on paper one would say, "You're gonna spend three weeks in Death Valley," you say, "No, I'm not going to be able to." Very often, very quickly you forget about it.