Bette Davis in All About Eve was huge for me. Her acting was staggering.

You've got to grow up sometime.

The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.

There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

I feel like I had to learn how to take care of myself and find out what made me happy aside from just making films.

Somehow I was invited to visit with Audrey Hepburn. I had this afternoon with her, and she gave me a couple things. She was so gracious and everything you would think that she would be.

Sometimes I'll watch a movie, and it's got some big star in it playing a working-class person, and the character is in a grocery store, and you can kind of tell, from just watching the scene, that this actor doesn't do their own shopping. So you have to have some sense of reality.