Women are the life force we look at for their beauty.

I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.

I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'

I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.

There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike.

I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.

In film, you have to let go sometimes.