It's totally weird to see myself on a billboard!
Post 911, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it did before.
Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely.
If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will.
It is because my roots are so strong that I can fly.
Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.
What is really important to me is a sense of humour and a mischief about life. Life is just too boring otherwise.
I understand so very little. But I am not afraid to look: I am a good observer at last. My eyes are open, and I am not afraid.
There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort.
Grace is something you can never get but can only be given. There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about anymore than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks. A good night's sleep is grace and so are good dreams. Most tears are grace. The smell of rain is grace. Somebody loving you is grace.
I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.