Listening is everything. Listening is the whole deal. That's what I think. And I mean that in terms of before you work, after you work, in between work, with your children, with your husband, with your friends, with your mother, with your father. It's everything. And it's where you learn everything.

Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia.

I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.

People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.

I get nervous the more time I have to think about something so I deliberately don't give myself too much time between jobs. I take a big break and then I start working again usually.

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.