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.

I don't think it has to be one religious structure, one church. I think the issues of faith and redemption are much more universal than any one religion.

Risk is the willingness to fail.

The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly.

My greatest fear when we were doing "Body Heat" was that I wouldn't be sexy. I didn't have a self-image of myself as this alluring, powerful, sexual female.

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'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me