I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

All of the thinking and planning that you do to get there, and then, in one minute, in one second, it just doesn't matter. It goes out the window. You either got it or you didn't. There is something kind of refreshing about that.

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.

All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.

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.

As time goes on, I will play characters who get older: I don't want to be some Botoxed weirdo.