A friend of mine told me, you know your obsession with girls who talk like sexy babies? You have to put that into your script.

I had had a huge background in the nuance of the accent because I went to drama school in England for four years.

You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles that we have in our mouths and faces and tongues.

I have this necklace I always wear. I collect pendants from people I love; my best friends and members of my family have all given me one, and I put them on this chain so no matter where I am they're always with me.

When you make a movie, you're spending a month of your life with someone and, down the line, you have to spend more months with them. It is this mini-marriage that you have.

A woman needs her privacy while drinking a dirty Belvedere martini on the rocks with a splash of Tabasco.

Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.