I still have a lot to learn. I just have two cats, and when I'm in a bad mood - you know, it would be very easy to throw a cat across a room.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is one of the greatest films of all time.

I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, "Should I get face work?" And my mother and Anne Bancroft said to each other, "We are who we are, and we're not going to fall into that."

I feel that movies are gifts that come to you, and there are no accidents in what you end up doing.

I'm friends with Renny Harlan, who directed Die Hard 2, and I will say, I thought it was beautifully done. What I loved about it was that the bad guys are basically American political figures. They don't have East German accents or whatever.

It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.

You can change. And you can be an agent of change.