My kids are really learning everything from scratch. It's our job to be their tour guides and camp counselors and orientation people. That's a weird responsibility, especially in a world that feels as good as it feels bad.

People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.

I'd done "Gosford Park," a film that Julian Fellowes had written that Robert Altman directed.

Sort of what you do in drama school when asked to play something way out of your reach. Anyway, we used to laugh a lot about that. I used to say I'm not going to act old, Penelope. I'll just be myself.

I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.

I'm far, far, far from that. But of course, that's one of the joys of acting is that you can move up in the world, even if - you know, in the characters that you're playing, even if you don't.