You are thinking about where your brain is at any time. It's very tricky but it's why women are very well suited to rule the world in the future, because of the multi-tasking they do and their ability to be moving in 15 directions at once. It's the women who behave like men, who focus in that singular way with the blinkers on, who have problems. You get a lot more done that way maybe, but you also lose the perception of who's behind you, what's going on, the 360 degrees of it, the whole picture of life that we do have as women.

For young women, I would say don't worry so much about your weight. Girls spend way too much time thinking about that, and there are better things. For young men, and women, too, what makes you different or weird-that's your strength. Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up. I used to hate my nose. Now I don't. It's OK.

Probably we should let Hillary [Clinton] play the role she was destined to play all by herself first.

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 reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.

It's very humbling to imagine somebody else's really life and their pain ... It's my drug.

Pretending is a very valuable life skill.