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

I'm always trying to have a good time on set because that's when things happen. That's when you're playful.

If you're upset with how you look at 25, life's going to be tough.

I always had a problem with original sin; I always had a problem with the exclusivity of the church and a lot of the things that the nuns taught me.

This is an amazing country, for all of its faults. My feeling is, dig in and let's try to change the world. Dissent is not only your right, it's your duty.

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

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.