When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

I think looking at your own life, on- and offscreen, you can motivate anything, or you can delude yourself into anything.

That's the thing about independently minded children. You bring them up teaching them to question authority, and you forget that the very first authority they question is you.

I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.

I always think that the difference between film and theater is like the difference between masturbation and making love. Because, in film, you just have to get one moment right; you're practically by yourself. And in theater, you actually have to have a relationship with the audience.

When I got the script for Thelma & Louise, when I met with the director, Ridley Scott, I said, "I don't want to do a revenge film. I'm not interested in doing that moment in the script after they shoot the truck, where it says they jump up and down and they're real happy about it".

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.