I have a couple of girlfriends who are like healing. We take care of each other. They know when I need to be taken care of.

I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.

To get people emotionally involved in something intellectual and political is important.

I don't feel that way now. I don't want to make movies for the 10 people who feel exactly the same way about the world that I do. I want to make movies that many, many people see, and I want to say something that I believe is important in a way that people who don't agree with me can hear. And that involves making different kinds of choices, but it's not like a compromise that I'm making. It's that something else interests me, something else is appealing to me.

I said to Ramona [my daughter] once ... you should never look yourself up on the Internet. It's something I've learned.

Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.

I'm pretty good at indulging myself. I'm about to go travel for a week. I like to get massaged, go into steam rooms. I take care of myself.