Confidence is everything in this business.

I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.

My sheets are monogrammed, so is my silverware and pretty much everything else I own. My rule is, if it's not moving -- monogram it!

We’re more than just our dresses.

It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it.

I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.

As an artist, I feel more strongly than ever that my job on earth is to tell the stories of the invisibles, and women have been invisible on film for a long time.

My rule is, if it's not moving-monogram it!

If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them.

Every day you have to choose and cultivate your own happiness.

I don't think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It's not easy on anybody.

In the country of the story the writer is king.

Wishing for control is like wishing for the rapture.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

It's something that's always been there for me, that I have huge blue eyes - it's been something that people have always talked about.

We still need conservationists who will attempt the impossible, achieving it because they aren't aware how impossible it is.

There is no greater advocate of perestroika than the president of the United States.

Be true to yourself. But that's something everyone says and no one means. No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like.

There are situations that refuse to be photographed. But at other times nothing will stop me, because I know my pictures will not shout against anyone - only against time.

You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal.

It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.