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

In terms of our foreign policy, that's where we made a mistake after 9/11. Everyone's going, "Why, why, why," and there wasn't any investigation or learning from any of what we had been doing up to that time that had set us up.

He has a very strong vision of what he wants.

In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with.

Happiness is the true beauty weapon.

The only time I've really been away from my kids to do work was doing Shall We Dance because they both were in camp and it was the first time in twenty years that I haven't been with my kids.

I got married to Chris Sarandon, who was a graduate student, and he knew everything at that point, I thought, because he was older. He introduced me to poetry and black-and-white movies.