Once you get your own family clear in your head, whatever your problems are with it. You're better prepared for being an adult in the world.

We've had so many lifetimes of different cultures and different religions and different points of view and different wars and different loves and different children.

Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.

Hollywood always had a streak of the totalitarian in just about everything it did. The old moguls were essentially hard-fisted authoritarians who had created a system of linked dictatorships to control the creative people. We were supposed to be the children; mad, tempestuous, brilliant, talented, not terribly smart children.

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.

I'm an artist, therefore I think I am sensitive to human pain.

I loved the idea of doing a love story with people over the age of 60 and a film that will hopefully give so many of the audience a chance to see themselves on the screen.