I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie.

On my last day of shooting, I'd be happy to say 'Cut, it's a wrap' and fall off the twig.

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.

I prefer fact to fiction.

I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.

If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.

I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived.

I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.

I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject.

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller.

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

I don't blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them.

I believe we need heroes...we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

Soccer isn't very social. Plus, if you don't like someone on the other team, you can do something about it.

I could just have chips and salsa for dinner every day.

Every morning, I wake up trying to be the best mom and the best role model for my kids in a healthy diet and active lifestyle.