“I have a love interest in every one of my films – a gun.”

If it can bleed, we can kill it.

You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

Women are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.

Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure.

Luck is for the ill-prepared.

Confidence comes from victory, but strength comes from the struggle.

Discipline is what you use when you don’t want to do something, when you have to force yourself.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.

All I know is that the first step is to create a vision, because when you see the vision – the beautiful vision – that creates the want power.

Marijuana. That’s not a drug, that’s a plant.

Political courage is not political suicide.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

Well, you know, I’m the forever optimist.

Love stories are built around people’s idiosyncrasies.

Every year I make a plan. I do it. It will be done.

Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women.

We live in a strange world, where we think we can buy or build our way out of a crisis that has been created by buying and building things. Where a football game or a film gala gets more media attention than the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced.

I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.

I’m not a film buff. I don’t watch a lot of movies.

You did not come this far to be a supporting character in someone else’s film.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

I’ve been fortunate. I don’t pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

One good thing about acting in film is that it’s good therapy.