I did a couple of plays in junior high school, maybe high school, and then I did a play in college.

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

As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.

People say as a woman actor your career is over at 40. But then they told me I would never work again after I was 16.

It's a skill that people are born with. Either you're a focuser or you're a multitasky person. I am a full-focus person.

I suppose that's my one little secret, the secret of my success.

How could you ask me to believe in God when there's absolutely no evidence that I can see? I do believe in the beauty and the awe-inspiring mystery of the science that's out there that we haven't discovered yet, that there are scientific explanations for phenomena that we call mystical because we don't know any better.