Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.

Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles.

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.

My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I'm always on time - or early.

There are lots of futurists that spend their whole life trying to figure out who we're going to be in 40, 50, 60, 100 years. That's the great thing about science fiction.

If I fail, at least I will have failed my way.

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.