There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.

There's always that feeling of 'Oh, God! One day they'll find out that I really have no idea what I'm doing.

Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.

You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.

When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl.

Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view.

Where does it lead, this rockrose path?

Mistakes are proof that you are trying.

I really enjoy being the child's 'welcoming committee' and to help someone usher his or her spirit into the world in a very peaceful way is very effortless to me.

You can't teach people anything. You can only draw out.

Drinking tequila is more about the journey than the destination

Quit Iraq Study Group to avoid politicizing it.

The movie that made me want to make movies was "Blue Velvet."

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It's commenting or observing or twisting life.

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.