Let's face it, we were all once three-year-olds who stood in the middle of the living room and everybody thought we were so adorable. Only some of us grow up and get paid for it.

For young women, I would say don't worry so much about your weight. Girls spend way too much time thinking about that, and there are better things. For young men, and women, too, what makes you different or weird-that's your strength. Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up. I used to hate my nose. Now I don't. It's OK.

I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.

There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.

I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.

I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities.

It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.