"Anyone who's had a finger pointed at them and been told they're pretty or attractive, there's a powe..." — Diane Lane

I think it's lovely that women are afforded attention on the stage in terms of their inner journeys, their emotional lives. That's the great harvest, the great writing available to women. Whether that makes it to the screen, that's a whole other conversation.

My relationship with aging is cozy. I'm not trying to play 29 and holding on with white knuckles, you know?

You have to realize, making movies is the weirdest thing you could ever do. It's a contrivance, but you're attempting to reach people's hearts in the dark, and there are so many factors that are out of your control.

It's all so confusing and incestuous and curious, the trail that actors wander through in the course of their careers and how stories overlap. It's funny.