There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.

Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety.

Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.

Making a film is like going down a mine-once you've started you bid a metaphoricalgoodbye to the daylight and the outside world for the duration.

I'll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended there was an outbreak of booing, which made us look at each other with some surprise.

Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.

That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.

No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting him have his way. They trusted me, and that doesn't often happen.

I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.

Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.

Our pasts haunt us all.” I admitted, in a rare moment of perfect clarity.

One day, everything will be like before again. And it is not like it.

one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture.

During the season, most of my time to unwind is in my car ride home. When I get home, it's being with my kids.

I like to cook with the philosophy of using great ingredients and not altering them too much.

Channel your passion into lasting results

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

Pain is my daily routine. As long as I don't go to the hospital, it's nothing for me.

To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.