I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress.

I would certainly choose my jobs depending on the actions of the character. I won't do anything that has to do with child abuse or women's abuse.

I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones

I love the new technology in terms of giving access to doing more independent work. When I first started out, any film had to rent from Panavision and the expenses were humongous. Now, given the advances in technology, you can put out extraordinary quality filmmaking at nothing like the price it used to be.

It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't

I often play women who are not essentially good or likable, and I often go through a stage where I hate them. Then I end up loving and defending them.