It's still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women.

Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.

When you run into someone in NY it is usually a pleasant surprise. When you run into someone in LA you usually had a car accident.

Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?

The directors I consider really great have the ability to recognize when something's going in an unexpected direction and see it as a bonus and be able to go with it, as opposed to locking down what they thought was going to happen.

So I think (Obama) definitely has convinced people that he stands for change and for hope, and I can't wait to see what he stands for.

When Alan Rickman, a dear friend of mine, played villains, he always made it complicated. He didn't redeem what they did, but he made you feel that it was hard for them to be so horrible.