Compassion is very important, especially right now in America. We all need to strive as human beings to understand each other and ourselves better.

It's that I'm 39. I feel hot and sexy, actually... I feel it inside myself. I don't feel dried up and tired and no longer interested in sex is what I'm trying to say.

I think in this movie, every time I see his work, I'm blown away by it because he, to me, he really embodied the character so powerfully and so real, so truthfully to me.

Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies.

I think that certainly my choices empower me.

After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky.

But when you're in something together, it's very hard to be objective and you're very subjective.