What can I say? I hate Bush; I despise him and his entire administration, everything he represents and everything he has tried to do, not only internationally, which is horrific, but domestically as well. In my country the atmosphere is poisoned. Unbreathable for those of us who are not on the right. So thank you for inviting me to this festival and allowing me to leave there for a few days.

I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.

If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

Don't be absent from your own life.

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.