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 look like a real bag lady when I go to Starbucks with my dog and get my chai.

I think it's much more important to know the truth than it is to make money on it.

I don't feel competitive.

I was afraid I would get the Oscar for 'Irma La Douce' because it was popular. But I didn't want to because I didn't really think it was that good.

Listen to sounds beyond silence.

When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.