It Will Be Great When It's Not

I Am Optimistic. I Think That There Are A Lot Of Women Producing Things, Not Necessarily In The Studios. Actresses Are Putting Stuff Together. I Think There Are More Stories About Women Of Color [and] Older Women. But It Is Slim Pickings.

We Stand A Chance Of Getting A President Who Has Probably Killed More People Before He Gets Into Office Than Any President In The History Of The United States.

We Were Friends With Jonathan Demme. We Were All Down On The West Side Of New York, And I Think I Met Kurt Vonnegut Through Edith Demme. And Then I Was Lucky To Do Who Am I This Time? 1982, Which Was An Adaptation Of His Short Story That Jonathan Demme Directed With Chris Walken And I, And That Really Cemented The Friendship.

Everything's Serendipitous And There's No Way Of Knowing Who's Going To Get Sick Or Who's Going To Get Hit By A Bus Or Who's Going To Fall In Love And Who's Going To Get Pregnant. All The Things That Happen, It's Up For Grabs So It's Kind Of An Exercise In Surrender In A Way.

I Remember Anthony Perkins Saying, "real Is Not Necessarily Interesting." So Real Is Not Enough. But What Happens As An Actor Is That You're Really Trained To Listen And To Be Open And Have Empathy. It's Such A Natural Consequence That You End Up Being More Political. You Can Empathize With The Mother Whose Kids Are Going To Be Sent To Iraq, Or You Can Emphasize With The Mother Who Is Losing Their Child To A Disease. How Could You Not Then Be Active? So You're Automatically Drawn To That Aspect In The Rest Of Your Life.