You know, you're not aware of it, but you're following the action of the film through the body of the protagonist, you know? You feel what he feels when he jumps, when he leaps, when he wins, when he loses. And I think I just took it for granted that, you know, we can all do that, but it became obvious to me that men don't live through the female characters.

Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.

I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.

I am not always happy. I am happy in front of the press. I can be extremely grumpy, ask my husband.

How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.

I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram.

I wonder which of the megaton bombs Jesus, our President's personal savior, would have personally dropped on the sleeping families of Baghdad?