I feel like I run a business although I haven't one. It's planning, planning, and planning.

In my own experience of male and female directors, people have a much, much harder time taking a direct command from a woman. It's somehow very difficult for people.

All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.

I never look a gift horse in the mouth. And I've been really, really lucky. I'm aware of that. And my career has been given to me by the people I've worked with, no question. The actors, the directors, the cinematographers, the writers, all of whom gave me the opportunity to work in the way that I have and I'm really grateful.

Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.

I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.

You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.