Well, it has to do with very deep things, because it might be that imagining yourself as a girl is a diminishment. But it is something that when I made "The Devil Wears Prada" it was the first time in my life, 30 years of making movies, that a man came up and said I know how you felt. I know how you felt. I have a job like that. People understand.

I don't know what my image is. I went to France to publicize Marvin's Room, and one really smart young woman journalist said to me, "You know, when I told people I was going to interview Meryl Streep they were so excited... all ze women in my office, they love you so much. But ze men - they are afraid of you."

All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.

I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me.

The first thing [in career and motherhood] is a great husband. That I found many years ago and I am lucky in that way.

When criticism comes your way as an actor they are not criticizing your writing or your painting or your piece, they are criticizing you! It is hard to put that away in a place where you are not hurt.

I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.