I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up.

Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.

I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.

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

And it interferes with your ability to be a good actress if you're constantly aware of yourself as a person. To me, it isn't valuable to think about how I'm coming off all the time if I'm trying to create a character, because that's a process that I love. It's like falling in love and surrendering to another person or a character.

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.