I just kind of do my thing with sort of tunnel vision for the story and my role and how it fits together.

I may be the only actress in Hollywood who won't need a face lift, because when I take off my makeup, I look so great compared to my characters!

I know sometimes, that all it takes to be invincible, is to know you are such.

My thesis [is] that in order to design a tool, we must make our best efforts to understand the larger social and physical context within which it is intended to function

I really care about you and I don't want to anymore because it feels too shitty for me.

Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpaste?

Life's harder, the deeper you feel things.

There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.

Photographs are the results of a diminution of solar energy, and the camera is an entropic machine for recording gradual loss of light.

Music was the medium through which knowledge was passed from generation to generation.

Information is light. Information in itself, about anything, is light.

Genius still means to me, in my Russian fastidiousness and pride of phrase, a unique dazzling gift. The gift of James Joyce, and not the talent of Henry James.