Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up with transgendered human beings.

I like to work in costumes, makeup, and hair that allow me tremendous freedom.

The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.

When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.

It took Sydney Pollack a long time to get me to do Tootsie. I asked myself if I wanted to play some frothy, ditzy character after I had just done Frances. Obviously, I'm thrilled that I did.

To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you're in New York, it's terrible.