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

I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate

Risk is the willingness to fail.

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 never occurred to me that I couldn't change things that needed changing or couldn't have what I wanted if I worked hard enough and was good enough

What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that

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