Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.
If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.
I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn’t as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.
Its just person after person in every different country that has a life that I can’t even imagine and has gone through horror that I can’t even imagine.
I’d go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn’t know who I was. And things just get really dark.
I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.
The side of fairytales I don’t like is that they always have happy endings, that there’s just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that’s what I try to teach my kids.
I guess that I’ve always wanted to be a Bond villain.
Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.
I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn’t. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.
As a director, I hoped that I was able to help the actors by giving them the space and the respect they need and the trust. I gave them what I always felt I needed when I was working.
They’re right to think that about me, because I’m the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.
I remember the days of auditioning and being nervous and so I really didn’t want to make people have to jump through hoops to do auditions and be nervous and make them more nervous. I kind of wanted to hire everybody and find something for everybody.
It’s just such a freeing thing to set these great challenges for yourself, to travel, to learn more about the world, to just go out there and get crazy and get free and get strong.
Once you have six children, you’re committed.
To do something good, it has to scare you.
I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.
I’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds.
I think doing anything having to do with war, you walk away so very grateful for everything you have and the safety that you have.
War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There’s no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.