I don't really want to do things that I feel like are going to send out a message that I don't really want to sign up for.

If you read reviews that you think by their very nature are not respectful of the actresses involved or not appreciating the work as it should be, I think you should write to reviewers or comment and say, "Are you kidding me?"

If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.

I think if I was ever really going to be more serious about writing I'd have to try and find some way to do it with other people. I do find the silence kind of eerie.

I think it is kind of important to direct someone so the character is appealing, but, as an actress, I find it frustrating because I think, "Why do I have to be more likable than a man would have to be saying the same line?"

Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.