It has nothing to do with commercial success. You cannot calculate in your head how to put the mosaic together to make a commercial film: that's out of the question.

I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity.

It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.

To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Just this once, ’ he says almost more to himself than to me. ‘Just one moment.’ Then he leans down and kisses me.

I've spent a long time giving people the benefit of the doubt, and I'm tired of it.

Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me?

It's funny, because I sometimes feel that I'm most creative when I'm pregnant.

I want to teach parents how they can help their kids with death, grief, and losing things, the journey of life.

I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy.

However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.

But then we so rarely understand the value of what we possess until it's gone.

The bigger my chest is, the more it gets in the way. It just creates space. It makes me much more efficient if I don't have so much in the way between me and my opponent.