I hate plastic surgery. I have a horror of any kind of knife. I don't like it.
I've never committed to a role without a script.
I just want to tell stories that have an impact on people. Somebody needs to have an impact because people are lost. People are really lost.
I've made some great movies. 'Risky Business' still stands up. It's timeless. They study that film in film school.
I was just glad to be going to work again.
I have this very strange sensitive skin. If I put anything on it but this one product, it erupts into a rash.
It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.
I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.
I may be an optimist.
When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.
Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started.
I think there's a knowingness in my face.
I grew up in Europe, and I used to like those very slow-moving European films. I've been contaminated by the American TV culture, and I just want things to move faster now.
I've never had a manager, and I've had various agents, and, fortunately or unfortunately, I've been blessed.
I love my friends. I love my love-life. I love my hobbies. I love eating.
I feel a terrifically painful disturbance in the natural law of things between men and women that must be balanced in the next few thousand years. What has been done in the name of holding up masculine energy as God and feminine energy as subservient has really wiped out everything.
I just think that I'll never have plastic surgery if I'm not in front of the camera. If you make your living selling this thing, which is the way you look, then maybe you do it. But trust me, the minute I'm directing or producing and not starring, I would never even think of it.
Vivien Leigh was a phenomenal actress, a very complicated woman, living on the edge of mental problems, haunted by demons and angels. And though I've never thought of myself like Marilyn Monroe, I was inspired by the tremendous risk she took - of being vulnerable.
There are a lot of things that I love, but if you're just completely invested in those things, their opposite can kick you over... So the trick is finding out how to maintain your balance when you're in situations with the people who make you happy and when you're not.
I'm voraciously looking to express myself in my work. I love my work.
