I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.

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."

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too. Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

It's harder for men to imagine themselves as the girl in the movies than it is for me to imagine myself as Daniel Craig bringing down the building.

Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.

Jumpsuits for men are always so difficult when you get to that one area.

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.