I had a number of great teachers and the ones that really were the strongest influences on me were women. They were really, really smart and interesting women.

It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.

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.

I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.

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.

There have been directors that I did not enjoy working with, but for the most part I realize that I have been unbelievably spoiled in my career because I have worked with some of the greatest, greatest directors ever.

I do honestly think that if women were running the world there would be more investment in peace, because basically as women we do not want to see our children killed. Maybe I am completely idealistic, but until we see women in equal positions of power in the world, I just think that we are doomed.