You want to do movies that your children can watch, and that your children can have fun at and enjoy the experience of shooting.

So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years.

I have one friend that I've had since I was born, and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's not really impressed or interested in the actor's life. My family isn't really either.

Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

What once was an expression of who I was - acting - also became my hiding place.

I don't ever want to have to depend on anyone completely.

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.