People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.

I'm in show business. I believe in illusion and delusions and in holding aloft the bubble of a dream of some sort because, really, there are lots of reasons to look at the chasm. But art and music, these ineffables, they're just - they're the consolations of what human beings can create and make, and delight is accessible, you know, should you care to find it.

I would like Martin Scorsese to be interested in a female character once in a while, but I don’t know if I’ll live that long.

The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.

Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done.

While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world.

When I was in - at Vassar, and I came from a public high school in New Jersey, there was - that class still existed. I think it's pretty much gone, but there was a way of talking that the private school girls had that was different than the way I talked from New Jersey.