I'm drawn to female characters; not all of them are strong characters.

It took an entire generation of critical thinking for Douglas Sirk's films to be really appreciated.

I've been really lucky with critical reaction, overall, even if my films don't often resemble each other.

Carol' takes place at a time the country was crawling out of the shadows of the war years, feeling the new vulnerabilities of the Cold War and conflicts within the union.

I wasn't very good in my serious acting class. Sometimes people took our class so seriously, so I used to, sort of, make fun of people after class. And so a friend of mine said, 'Why don't you do the comedy thing.' That's how it all worked out.

I have the world's worst taste in men, so now I simply have wonderful relationships of the friend kind, but trying to settle down with somebody? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm beyond that.

You have to move in life, but the loyalty you develop in a community is always remembered. But if you leave, you don't pick it up in the next town. It's not an add-on, you know, because you lose what you had.

My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by growing trust. I appreciate this.