I've heard it said that winning an Oscar means you live five years longer. If that's true I want to thank the academy because my husband is younger than me.

If you are at odds with the director, neither one of you is going to get anywhere. You really do have to be able to make both of you happy.

Older, you know, is obviously relative. You're older if there's somebody younger than you in the room, and you're younger if there's someone older in the room.

We shouldn't require our politicians to be movie stars. Then again, we're all influenced by charisma. It's hard not to be. We all collectively fall for it.

Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.

At one point, 'feminist' became a pejorative term. How did that happen? If you're a feminist, you're basically saying you're a humanist.

You have to remember that Hollywood is in the business of making movies that they can sell tickets to, they're not in the business of finding great roles for actors.

I was the kid who read a lot and who was academic, and who was more of an indoor person than an outdoor person. I would win the summer reading contest at the library.

I'm not supposed to communicate something that's completely unrealistic.

When you become a parent, you finally appreciate and understand what your mother did.

I'm older than I was before when I was young.

People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.

Life is full of compromises, and whether or not you're willing to negotiate.

We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there's nothing but chaos.

What gives you pleasure and joy? Let those be the things that lead you forward in life.

The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves.

Loving someone is giving them the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to.

Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about.

Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.