We hurt each other because we care about each other.

I think in real life most of us don't know how to communicate our deepest feelings very well.

Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.

I just got back from Switzerland, which I've never been to. I went to Switzerland and Amsterdam.

You can be a woman in charge of a production and still be generous and kind and insightful and decisive without being considered a butch in any way.

I like diversity; I want one character to be very different from the next. I love to live with a character for a long time if I can, but I like one character to be different from the next.

Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.

Just because someone isn't working at an office doesn't mean they're not working hard at something.

I'm trying not to put pressure on myself to decide what to do at this moment, and just sort of go with what's happening.

I think you have to have a little bit of a screw loose to think that you can [become an actor] because the odds are so against you. I was just crazy enough to think I could do it.

People who have no idea it's me when they first see me playing something, and later they realize, 'That's her from whatever it is,' it's a great compliment that they can forget.

It is not the size of the candle that matters, but the size of its light.

There's a lot of talk about the positive aspects of love. We as a society downplay the danger, the anxiety, and the disappointment. We romanticize romance.

What is it that brings on these moods of yours? Nothing mysterious: the ordinary pain of being alive.

If a brutal scene is shown for no reason except to shock, then it is bad.

When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.

[ Dalton Trumbo] always said he fought so many fights, all seemingly different, but all about the concepts of fairness and justice.

You know, since the 6th century, Sunni and Shia have been fighting.

Peter [Facinelli] would be so good at doing that. I want him to do the Beyoncé biopic.

There is no coming to heaven with dry eyes.

I don't believe in compromise, I believe there is a goal we are trying to reach.