"I had a daughter who was 9 years old and I had the feeling I wasn't going to be a real parent if I didn't quit making movies for a while and spend time with her. I also felt that I'd made enough movies and said what I had to say at the time."

"It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean, the thing about the Romantic poets is that they've got the epitaph of romantic posthumously. They all died really young, and Keats, the youngest of them all."

"So many actors are not open in front of the camera - they have a persona."

"I don't belong to any clubs, and I dislike club mentality of any kind, even feminism - although I do relate to the purpose and point of feminism. More in the work of older feminists, really, like Germaine Greer."

"I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them."

"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry."

"Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character."

"It is a enduring truth that the canvas of imagination has no boundaries except those imposed by fear."