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My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant.
I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.
As time goes on, I will play characters who get older: I don't want to be some Botoxed weirdo.
I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.
Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.
Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.
Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option.
I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.
But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.
I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.
I did a couple of plays in junior high school, maybe high school, and then I did a play in college.
I've only been to Dublin once, and I had a great time. I got completely soaked because it was rainy.
Otherness is a big thing for me. I'm always drawn to characters that live lives that I couldn't lead.
Going back and forth between the press and something like The Crucible must be really crazy and intense.
It's very important to distinguish between chemical depression that requires medication and talk therapy.
What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? The answer is always creativity; the answer is always art.
I didn't work very much when they were young, and I had the luxury to be able to do that. Most people can't.
There is no doubt that each of us is born an individual. Why is it then that so many of us die carbon copies?
My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.
I cannot believe in God when there is no scientific evidence for the existence of a supreme being and creator.
I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.
Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.
I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic, in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.
I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.
All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.
'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.
By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.
The world is littered with movies about people that are depressed that either did not come out or are not successful.
I never know what's going to move me. I'm always surprised. And it's always a mystery to the people who work with me.
People say as a woman actor your career is over at 40. But then they told me I would never work again after I was 16.
It's a skill that people are born with. Either you're a focuser or you're a multitasky person. I am a full-focus person.
I like to be in a different place when I make a movie so that I can't really focus on anything else, and that is your world.
I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.
I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.
I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.
I don't like the outside world to intrude when I'm making a film. I like to either see my family or work, but I don't like to go out.
I'm really not a clothes person. To me, that's just work. It's the thing I hate to do the most. I don't want to be judged in that way.
I wish people could get over the hang-up of subtitles, although at the same time, you know, that's kind of why I'm kind of pro dubbing.
a woman who struggles to recover from a brutal attack and sets out on a dark, psychological and physical journey for revenge and justice.
There's absolutely no sort of acknowledgment or reward for this - except for the intangible of my kids growing up to be wonderful people.
I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.
I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.
There is nothing in this world that I am prouder of than my ability to feel, to survive and, yes, to be a fool for what I love and believe in.
I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.
I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.
What I didn't realize is how completely consumed I would be by my sons. I didn't know that the rest of my life would become so little a priority.
Where I have problems is when I am in the midst of doing something that I am completely focused on, and then I am asked to buy shoes or something.
I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.
I absolutely love religions and the rituals. Even though I don't believe in God, we celebrate pretty much every religion in our family with the kids.
Sometimes, you really don't understand why something is important to you until you get halfway through the movie - or maybe even all the way through.