I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.

And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me.

New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.

Talent is a very potent aphrodisiac. When someone is incredibly gifted, I find them incredibly sexy.

I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.

If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride.

The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.

I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.

I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

Be the lighthouse that bears the torment of the storm, but never forget to show the saving lights of life.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

Words were different when they lived inside of you.

Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced.

Strong female leads are important.

Were all conning ourselves, one way or another, just to get through life.

I'm not a guy that sits around and does nothing.

Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped.

You can't win every battle! You must have the word Defeat in your dictionary; if not, defeat will triumph even more strongly!

If your book is set in the plantation days of the slave-owning South and you write a little romance between two slave owners without acknowledging the system they live, that's a political gesture.