People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.

I don`t like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.

Clothes are part of the character. They can`t but help inform who you are.

A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You`ve defined my entire life for me on the screen.

I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine.

There`s no environment. Use your imagination. There`s no fourth wall, whether it`s the first time you`ve told this story about her life, or the sixth time.

I love to swim for miles; I could just go back and forth.

I want to be an actress, not a personality.

There was just this amazing individuality. It`s just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement.

I like to run, to go down the stairs, I`m one of those kind of people.

There`s something about soft, unstructured arms that`s very beautiful.

I loved it, but I really have to come to rehearsal. I had to spend time with the material. I don`t know how people do it; it`s very complex.

Well, this would be nice if it worked out, but I`m not selling the farm.

I wasn`t very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children`s birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

I notice now, whatever character in whatever movie you`re watching, they have these toned arms and muscles.

Topless is just topless. That`s nothing. Why is it OK for men to go around topless when some of them have bigger boobs than many women?

What bugs me is that movies don`t reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don`t treasure women as they get older.

I just read that Time magazine cover story with all this information about how you have to have your kids by the time you`re 12 or it`s all over. Please.

I don`t theorize too much. I sort of let the experience sink in, and I have to discover what the character is by doing it, and having those thoughts that she`s thinking.

I just didn`t work that much while the kids were growing up.

I remember seeing that movie with Nicolas Cage and whoever, where they`re both alcoholics and she`s a prostitute, and they`re... built!

I no longer say nice things about yoga. I was doing yoga so long before everybody else.