I don't do like diva trips and stuff.

Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.

I think when I was in my early twenties and middle twenties I didn't even know I wasn't living up to my potential. A couple of friends told me I wasn't and told me to get my act together, and it made a huge impact on me.

We cannot divorce what we are producing from what we are. We create technology out of the vision we have of ourselves. If we are blind in our conception of ourselves we will create a blind technology.

When you look back... on your love affairs... what you really find out is that the only person you really go to bed with is yourself.

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.

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.