I just love the fact that that's the way life is. When something horrible happens, you do find yourself laughing in weird places in the midst of grief and crying in the supermarket when you see a cereal that somebody used to eat. There's just no way of guarding yourself one way or another. Everybody grieves differently, and there's no right or wrong way.

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I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.

Sometimes what happens is that, when you micromanage actors and moments, it just doesn't quite live.

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

I am optimistic. I think that there are a lot of women producing things, not necessarily in the studios. Actresses are putting stuff together. I think there are more stories about women of color [and] older women. But it is slim pickings.