It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.

I've played a heroin addict and a speed freak and dark characters throughout my career.

It's triumphant for someone to wake up to life. I feel a tremendous sense of liberation. You want to be able to use both your intuitive side and your go-get-'em side with no blame.

I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak.

I love what you might call brutal elegance. Where form and function are really obvious. There is nothing easily broken in this house.

All of [motherhood] surprised me. It surprised me from the very first second I saw Jack. I'd believed that my pregnancy was a condition. It never computed. And there he was. Everyone made fun of me because I stared at him for months and months, not being able to believe he was real.

A l lot of films I've done are essentially about women who are finding their voice, women who don't know themselves well.