I didn't work very much when they were young, and I had the luxury to be able to do that. Most people can't.

By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.

Being an artist is a way of saying, I am here, and this is what I stand for.

I think it's important that when people are struggling, that you not run away from them if you love them. Kristen, I mean, I look at the room tonight, you know, Kristen Stewart and Claire Danes, Jennifer Lawrence, all these young women that I worked with who basically were child actors like I was a child actor. And then I feel very protective of them, because even though I think I have managed to get through the process relatively sanely, I have my scars, and I hope to be in some ways a member of their family that's out there protecting them.

I think "destiny" is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.

Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.

I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about perceptiveness, and they were about examining psychology and examining people and relationships.