There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.

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 work itself is the reward, and if I choose challenging work, it'll pay me back with interest. At least I'll be interested, even if nobody else is.

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

And she [Margaret Thatcher] also had a sort of a way, like a railroad train, of going, taking a breath and starting quite quietly and making a point in a way that you don't really know that this point is going to be made through several examples, and there will be not be a break in the speaking voice at any point.

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

But for me, it [singing] was a way to get out the feeling of the song, and also to get out the feelings that, you know, roil in high school, to express something that I had no other way of expressing.