I think I'm very good at adjusting to anything and to any situation, and if you are good at being in the moment and adjusting, you can actually have a clear vision of what to do with things or how to do things.

I love to cook for my husband and daughter. I enjoy going to the market for fresh vegetables.

I like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41.

Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.

Imagine if I'd said, 'I have to be the best actress - I want that and nothing else.' I never would have directed. I never would have produced. I never would have done a beauty line. I would have just worried about getting a job or been frustrated that I wasn't getting the job that I wanted. I was ready to be a businesswoman.

My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.

There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.