When you get as old as I am, you kind of believe there's nothing new under the sun, but there's always a fresh way of looking at something. That's why I love working with young people. They remind you of things you used to know and have since forgotten.

I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?

I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.

Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant.

We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings'.

I don't think they're more temperamental people now. With social media we hear a lot more about it. The nastiness you get online, there were always mean girls - always - they didn't have such a big forum as they do now. Mean girls ought to get a life, I think.

It's a very generous culture, American culture. I know you can't generalize 300 million people, but everyone I've met here has been so lovely to me.