I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.

The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.

People have to make their own decisions about their lives.

What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.

You know, you're not aware of it, but you're following the action of the film through the body of the protagonist, you know? You feel what he feels when he jumps, when he leaps, when he wins, when he loses. And I think I just took it for granted that, you know, we can all do that, but it became obvious to me that men don't live through the female characters.

As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else.

We don't like to talk about that in America, but there are classes in America. And she [Julia Child] was of a class of women who were wealthy, privately educated, went to Smith, moved in that sort of circle. She was conscripted into the OSS, which is the early CIA, which was all filled with Yalies and Princeton and Harvard people and a few women who were typing mostly but also had something to do.