Honestly, I'm always aware of the political implications of the movies that I make.

What I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary.

Having an education is invaluable.

I want roles that challenge people to question where they are in life.

I have a couple of girlfriends who are like healing. We take care of each other. They know when I need to be taken care of.

I find myself more and more interested only in roles which move the world forward.

Being a mother has absolutely forced me. You have to write things down and have systems for all of it. And then you set up systems and you realize they don't work.

To get people emotionally involved in something intellectual and political is important.

A lot of actresses are doing incredible work right now, playing real women, complicated women. I don't feel despairing at all. And I'm more looking with hope for something fascinating.

I'm 37 and I was told recently I was too old to play the lover of a man who was 55. It was astonishing to me. It made me feel bad, and then it made me feel angry, and then it made me laugh.

A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.

What do you want from me? Revenge? Sorry—we're all out of revenge today!

I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.

Things are useless without practice.

In this world we see the pairs of opposites. Ultimately there are no oppositions. In the superconscious awareness there is no division.

Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment?

I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules and people who were real.

The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself.

No distinction is 'tween man and man, But as his virtues add to him a glory Or vices cloud him.