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.

But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.

I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis.

People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.

I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.

What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? The answer is always creativity; the answer is always art.

There is no direct evidence, so how could you ask me to believe in God.

You hold all of our futures in your hands. So you better make it good.

I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young.

Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option.

It's very hard for me to get a new car. It's really hard for me to get a new house. It's really hard for me to move on from the things that give me stability.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.