What's totally terrifying is that, unlike a musician who has a musical instrument, or a painter that's got a canvas and a brush, acting is us. Our energy, our soul, our spirits. And it's so hard because it's so vul­nerable. You're exposing everything.

I see many more men who are feminist, or at least who have learned about life in the context of feminism.

Magazines, books, novels, TV, internet, movies - all of those things is what creates our consciousness.

I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and The Beatles were going there to discover truth. And so I went and trekked through India by myself, but instead of discovering truth, I wanted to join the Peace Corps.

I knew that my newfound activism and feminism was going to improve my acting, because I was seeing things not just in very narrow, individual, kind of Freudian terms, but seeing them in a much broader, societal way that was going to deepen and enrich my talent.

When you're an older woman [in a movie] you tend to be in - how did you put it? You're the brunt of the joke.

Address things now that could otherwise turn into regrets.