The great thing about women directors is that they're not only involved in the performances - they can gauge where we all are personally and know how to direct us better because of that.

I don't know if I would play a woman in space in a bikini.

She raised me to not think of men and women as different. She raised me without gender. It's kind of the reason she named me Billie. It's not about being a strong woman - it's about being a strong person.

I'm very lazy.

If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.

I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.

For me, the ethical arguments that resonate strongest are the ones that oppose the death penalty.

I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.