I would never say don't do acting [to my kids], because I think it is a glorious profession and I am so thankful for everything it has let me express.

You can be afraid in a press conference, nervous, sweaty, but you can't be afraid when you do your work because it doesn't work that way.

I'm in show business. I believe in illusion and delusions and in holding aloft the bubble of a dream of some sort because, really, there are lots of reasons to look at the chasm. But art and music, these ineffables, they're just - they're the consolations of what human beings can create and make, and delight is accessible, you know, should you care to find it.

I don't really talk about my process very much, because I feel like if I give something away, it might not come back.

I had a number of great teachers and the ones that really were the strongest influences on me were women. They were really, really smart and interesting women.

We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration to keep going on the days that your low. We need each other in that way.

It's hard to negotiate the present landscape with a brain and a female body.