We need feminist voices today, you know. In my time, we had incredible feminist voices and I'm sure we have it today, too, but in all the massive outlets, maybe the one or two or three voices are somehow disappearing.

Life experiences become acting experiences, which in turn become life experiences.

Choice is the essence of what I believe it is to be human.

It is only the untalented director who imagines him or herself in every part, wants his or her own thoughts and emotions portrayed; it is only the untalented who make their own limitations those of the actors as well.

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

We who are alive at this moment are only an infinitesimal part of something that has existed for eternity and will continue when there is no longer anything to show that earth existed. Still, we must feel and believe that we are all.

One of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself to pieces.