So it's not a thing that's a struggle. It's work, but it's not a struggle. It's fun. And she had a very particular way of emphasizing points and making her point, and that had to do with bringing out a word that you didn't normally think was the most important word in the sentence.

I would like Martin Scorsese to be interested in a female character once in a while, but I don’t know if I’ll live that long.

That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.

There is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.

My own sense of well-being and purpose in the world. That comes from studying the world feelingly, with empathy in my work. It comes from staying alert and alive and involved in the lives of the people that I love and the people in the wider world who need my help.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

I need to go where people are serious about acting.