The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them.

I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.

I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I learned narration through movies.

All my life I've felt like somebody's wife, or somebody's mother or somebody's daughter. Even all the time we were together, I never knew who I was. And that's why I had to go away. And in California, I think I found myself.

Beauty doesn't have anything to do with prettiness. Beauty has to do with something else; it gets into an area where words can't go.

My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture.

Everybody thought New York was this hard, cruel place, and I found it to be an extraordinarily wonderful place filled with the most interesting people.