I didn't do so well in the academic world, so I think the only way I could express myself was through visual art - anything I could get my hands on, whether it was glassblowing, sculpture, painting, or photography. I always wanted to be a painter. Or a farmer.

I never like to tell people what they should take.

I wouldn't want to be married to me, but luckily Tom Cruise does.

And I am standing in front of my mother, and my whole life I have wanted to make my mother proud. And now I'm going to make my daughter proud.

People can tell you what to do, but ultimately, we're all going to die, so how do you want to live?

When I was working with Stanley Kubrick [on "Eyes Wide Shut"], he would always say, "You never tell the audience what to feel. Let them choose to have their responses."

It's good to have a little distance. If you discuss your love too much, it just damages it.