Let my critics direct a movie if they think it's so easy!
People have this fantasy that it's all just an easy ride if you know someone important. Well, it's not. I've known lots of people in this business - and it hasn't really done anything for me.
I never had an acting lesson.
From my earliest days as an actress, I had always been drawn to learning the director's job.
I think that most films have too much music in them; it overwhelms an audience.
I tend to be attracted to material that has a tough edge to it - darker material.
I love comedy that seems kind of a little bit absurd.
I love fairy tales.
My biggest misfortune, my greatest regret, is that I wish I'd cut my time with Clint in half. I wouldn't say I wish I never had the relationship, but I wish I'd found a way - I'd understood who he was, where it would end - five or six years earlier so I could have gotten on with things.
I'm a great collaborator. I really am. I will steal anyone's idea if it is a good one.
When you're a director, the job itself forces you to take charge.
Since everything in my life collapsed in '89, I was just determined that I wouldn't cave in. I wouldn't just go away or become a basket case. I knew the value of me as a person.
The number one job of an actor is to be a character and never let the acting show.
If I'm playing a real-life person, I would take notes, I think that's important. For instance, when I played Rosemary Clooney, I was lucky enough to meet her; thankfully, she was still with us. And I talked with her and read her book, so when it's a real person, I want to find out everything I can.
