a woman who struggles to recover from a brutal attack and sets out on a dark, psychological and physical journey for revenge and justice.

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.

I like to be in a different place when I make a movie so that I can't really focus on anything else, and that is your world.

With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

There is no doubt that each of us is born an individual. Why is it then that so many of us die carbon copies?

Boys are easy. I mean, there are just a lot of bruises when they're young. With boys, you get a lot of accidental jabs in the eye and stepping on your feet, and those tantrums they cause when they don't want to leave the toy store.