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

In my own experience of male and female directors, people have a much, much harder time taking a direct command from a woman. It's somehow very difficult for people.

I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.

I own one pair of Prada shoes. They make my feet hurt... It's not the shoes' fault; they are exquisitely made. I blame my feet. I've got my mother's feet.

We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.

I feel very strongly that we make decisions about what we're giving to the world, what we're withholding from the world, by virtue of what we put on our bodies.

I had a number of great teachers and the ones that really were the strongest influences on me were women. They were really, really smart and interesting women.