The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is.

I don't have very much interest in trends and fashions. I don't follow the fashion shows and stuff like that into my real life. But I'm very, very interested in how people put themselves together, how women and men announce themselves to the world, through what they put on their bodies. Whether we choose Birkenstocks or whether we choose Burberry - it all signifies something and it's really interesting to me.

Well, she's so alive, Julia Child. And Margaret is so - is so designed. She's so intent upon making her point. That's the most important thing, is that she win the argument, and there is nothing that stands in the way of that train, you know. But Julia's just alive in front of you. That's part of why people loved her. They lived it with her. They breathed it with her. And the mistakes were all part of it.

As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else.

People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself.

What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it.

I never give any character I play less respect than I give my own life.