If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.

I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.

I'm not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. It gets them out - and better out than in.

If we could just trust the moment that we're in and live it in the way that you best can embrace it, it would be much better for all of us.

You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.

Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.

It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!

There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.

I'm not happy unless I've got a little bit of fear going.

We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.

It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy of prejudice. These were men and women of science, and science had no room for racism.

When you're young, you think it's going to be solved by love. But it never is. Being close-as close as you can get-to another person only makes it clear the impassable distance between you.

While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.

I have done so many things in my life," she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?

There's a bunch of directors that I really admire, and Australian ones as well. It would be nice to do a film at home.

Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn't too happy about it, but the people around are laughing.

But it's about health, not forcing my body to be something it's not meant to be.

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.

Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch.

Few can remember clearly when innocence came to a sudden end, the moment at which we ask for the first time: Am I loved?