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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.'

Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films.

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

I don't think my looks are modern. I always imagined I'd end up doing Chekhov, Ibsen and Shakespeare all my life and never play a contemporary character.

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.

There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out.

It's weird, because American films in the 1930s and '40s, particularly melodramas, were made for woman, from Bette Davis to Joan Crawford to Barbara Stanwyck to Katherine Hepburn, and for some reason we've taken a step backward in this sense.

I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.

I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.