I found that you're more powerful when talking from your soul.

I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes.

When a child enters the world through you, it alters everything on a psychic, psychological and purely practical level.

My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the Grapes of Wrath, his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.

When food becomes the enemy, every time we lose the fight we not only gain weight, but lose our self-esteem as well.

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 love films that make you feel good when you come out and, in my opinion, there's not enough of them these days.