"I was fortunate that my parents were bright, loving people who did everything they could to help me. I’m glad I was a…"

"Thirty-four thousand, four hundred and forty-eight total images: of which seventeen-thousand three-hundred and thirty…"

"If someone who matters to you takes you down, it can break you. That someone whose approval mattered to me started to…"

"I am a person with a lot of faith and I have conversations [with God] all the time but I am not so religious in the c…"

"There was a complete lack of conviction on my part. Just playing myself doesn't excite me, which is why I thought I c…"

"I did not set out to break stereotypes."

"My work is an extension of the person I am and of my beliefs."

"I follow my instincts. Sometimes it works commercially and sometimes it doesn’t, but I don’t regret a single film."

"I choose characters for the irresistible power they exude."

"... I was interested in cooking long before I even knew there was a computer. ... I started, I think when I was nine …"