I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.

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.

Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.

You can have a perfectly horrible day where you doubt your talent... Or that you're boring and they're going to find out that you don't know what you're doing.

I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram.

We're viewed as equals - but we're still not there yet. The challenge for our girls, I think, is dealing with that resistance. How can we lift and defuse it, how do we make it so our equality is not so threatening? Our girls are going to have to contend with that. I contend with it right now in every realm I operate in.

Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.