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.

What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it.

I don't know what my image is. I went to France to publicize Marvin's Room, and one really smart young woman journalist said to me, "You know, when I told people I was going to interview Meryl Streep they were so excited... all ze women in my office, they love you so much. But ze men - they are afraid of you."

The best thing about acting is when you're playing a scene and you actually become your character and lose yourself in that moment. That's when you know you've been succeeded at what you've worked very hard to accomplish in your profession. Those are the truly thrilling moments.

If you have a brain, you are obliged to use it.

Everyone is interesting. Everyone has something unexpected to offer and the job of acting is to pull it out of each other.

I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life.