Don't depend on other people's encouragement. It's never enough and never when you need it.

I am a person who goes out without a purse. I put things in my coat pockets, so I don't have any accessories.

It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity.

In the past, 'Avatar' would have won because Oscar voters loved to hand out awards to big productions, like 'Ben-Hur.' Today it's fashionable to give the Oscar to a small movie that nobody saw.

When you're young, there's so much that you can't take in. It's pouring over you like a waterfall. When you're older, it's less intense, but you're able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.

I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked.

Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner.