I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.

I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.

I had to take my makeup off at work every night. I wasn't allowed to do it at home because my mom said that when your work day is done, you're done with work.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.

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 don't know if you've ever seen some of the Sidney Lumet movies, like Dog Day Afternoon [1975] or Network [1976]. They're real events that happen in real time, and there are all of these different characters experiencing the same thing in different parts of the movie ... I am so bad at explaining my films. But it's in the world of finance and the world of media, and how they connect. It was a big undertaking. A big, mainstream movie, which stars Julia Roberts and George Clooney. But for me, it's really just a small story about character and people.