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."

I would say, don't smoke. I'm kidding, but yeah, I did smoke in college and as a young actor and it's stupid.

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

Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up.

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food! Everything else - power, influence, strength - all those things can overpower what's important in life. But as long as you have food and shelter over your head, if the necessities are taken care of, what makes us happy on top of that is very simple.

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

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.