Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.

Once we get out into a kind of an open world, we really do learn about ourselves and for me it's a lesson in discovering yourself, discovering your inner resources and then literally, in the movie, finding your voice.

I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers.

Without my women friends, I wouldn't know anything. They've been my teachers and my mothers. My mother was a wonderful person, but she didn't give me a lot of the stuff I needed to advance myself as an adult woman. I have a really strong group of girlfriends, and we share a lot with one another - the complications of raising children, marriages, personal and physical struggles.

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.

I'm uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection.

The dog actors and the relationship they have with their trainers is one of the most beautiful things I've ever watched happen in front of me.