The written word can be powerful and beautiful - but films transport us to another place in a way that even the most evocative words never can.


Learning is the most important thing, no mater how you do it, or where you do it, or who you do it with.

It's very intimate. There are certain moments where it feels like it's just you and the lens. It's something that has been a very stable, consistent thing in my life.

I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.

Everyone thinks I'm ethereal. But I'm not like that, you know. I'm not ethereal. Well, I might have a little bit of that quality to me, that 'old soul' thing, but I'm not ethereal.

If I'm in the middle of a take and I start to think about what I'm doing, I just mess up and I have to stop and so I find that for me, you really need to trust your instinct.

I think it's important that we have strong, female characters in movies now, which can really leave an impression on people - especially young people - and that they're not 'sexy' or 'cool.'

I don't mind doing the whole red carpet thing when I have to when it comes to publicizing a movie. But besides that, I don't like those kinds of things at all. Celebrity status is not really something that appeals to me.

There's no one out there like Quentin Tarantino. His films have a signature look, and they never just stick to the same kind of story.