Acting is being susceptible to what is around you, and it's letting it all come in. Acting is a clearing away of everything except what you want and need - and it's wonderful in that way. And when it's right, you're lost in the moment.

I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.

Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody.

People will say to me, ‘You’ve played so many strong women,’ and I’ll say, ‘Have you ever said to a man, “You’ve played so many strong men?”’ No! Because the expectation is [men] are varied. Why can’t we have that expectation about women?

I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.

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.

True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.