A lot of actresses are doing incredible work right now, playing real women, complicated women. I don't feel despairing at all. And I'm more looking with hope for something fascinating.

I think most human beings, even if you're in a situation that's constricting or complicated or hard, they try to survive.

Some people would say you need what you need to work, but I need very little to work, because I learned how to make movies on tiny movies. It's all kind of easy for me.

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

What I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary.

There are two ways to be cool: One is to be disinterested and make it seem like you must be doing something much more interesting than everybody else if you are this disinterested. The other is to be extremely interested. You are not trying to please anyone, but you are really invested are really focused.

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.