I just think that sometimes it is less hard to wake up feeling lonely when you are alone than to wake up feeling lonely when you are with someone else. Some people would be better off alone, but they feel they've got to get hold of someone to prove they're worthwhile.

Colin [Farrell] I talked to several times on the phone, and I said, remember, we have only twenty-five days of doing the movie [Miss Julie], so you must know some of your text. I was a little un-feminist, I didn't want to say [bossy voice] "learn your text!" But when he came, he knew all his text.

I realize that we've come to a different way of showing movies. But I'm still with the old ways, and I can't change.

I do not want to arrive at the end of life and then be asked what I made of it and have to answer: 'I acted.' I want to be able to say: 'I loved and I was mystified. It was a joy sometimes, and I knew grief. And I would like to do it all again.'

The Summer Book is beautiful and warm, with the kind of wisdom we can adapt to our everyday lives.

Film is wonderful as opposed to theater, because it will always live there, and they will always be seen.

I believe we come to earth with sealed orders. I believe that only those who lack passion look down on purpose.