I find actors who play nasty guys in movies are the nicest guys in real life, and the opposite then goes for heroes.

You really have to keep people interested, at all times, until the punch comes. You can do that with a film that lasts 90 to 100 minutes. That's very difficult to do at 160 minutes.

That's a funny thing, fame. People definitely do treat you differently. When you begin to be successful, people say, 'Don't go changing.' Well, that's easy to say, but the fact is, you don't change at all -- other people do.

You can work well with people that you may not get on well with in life because it's a parallel realism.

I can be intolerably jealous and I think that’s what’s driven me. My ambition knows no end.

I'm a one-woman guy. I think that if you can find someone you want to spend the rest of your life with, you should marry them instantly, and try to stay married.

You really have to work harder to come up with new ways to play the scenes.