I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.

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.

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

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.

I felt the smile grow from within, starting in my chest and making its way up to my face. If what the guru had said about auras and energy was accurate, I must have been glowing.

If there's one thing I would like to see, it'd be for us to be able to price the cost of carbon emissions.

I communicate mostly via e-mail and receive hundreds of e-mails a day.

No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle.

I've got a nine iron that says otherwise.

How enriched life is by friends! Good friends, new friends, old friends, feathered friends, feline friends, friends of friends.

You, yes, you, linger inside my heart The same you who stopped us before we could start.

Shane - "Tell you what: you can be Glammera the vampire hunter. I'll stick with being manly and heavily armed.

Well, I already know what happened to my face", I say. "I was there. Sort of

I feel extremely lucky, extremely grateful, and a little bittersweet, too.