It's hard to negotiate the present landscape with a brain and a female body.

I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot.

They were showing clips from my earlier films. All I could see was this beautiful young woman who was anxious about whether she was too heavy or if her nose was too big. I felt like saying to her, 'Just relax and it will all be OK.

I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional character in a made up story, it allows me to feel, pretend feelings and sorrows and imagined pain.

Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.

My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

It's hard to negotiate the present landscape with a brain and a female body.