And didn’t just happen in Minnesota, … Anita Hill wasn’t an isolated case. There are cases everywhere. And I don’t think it’s stopped.

Head in the Clouds.

When you’re playing with aspects of sexuality, certain things have to be hidden. That’s what my mother always used to tell me. I wanted to stay as true as possible to the original character, but...

I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive...

We’d have dinner with them. We’d bowl, we went snowmobiling and ice fishing. And they started trusting us. They really wanted us to tell the story right.

I’d love to get pajamas. Good, nice and warm flannel ones.

This year has proven to make those kind of films you don’t need to make them feel like medicine, you can make them powerful and still entertaining.

Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.

Hell, I would be terrified if Hollywood showed up in my community and was going to pick a scab, … The other thing was: ‘How are the men going to be portrayed?’ You have to...

McDormand is an incredible gift to the cinema, … There’s something so organic about her character, straight from the gut.

I was told to go to a director’s house at 9 p.m. on a Saturday night, so I went, thinking maybe this is the kind of thing you do. He opened the door wearing pajamas....

I am a huge fan of the show, and I’m very picky with my comedy. I don’t get to do comedy very often, and when they asked me, I jumped at the opportunity. I was...

If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.

I can’t change the way I look nor can I sit back and let that rule my life when I know in my heart that I’m a real girl,

I feel really lucky to have the body I have; I love it!

I have been working a lot, and I like it. And you know, it’s hard for me not to. I guess I’ve been working a lot because I get to play with brilliant people.

I come from a ballet background; I did ballet for 12 years and I consider that my theater. I told stories with my body for 12 years and then came into this industry. I couldn’t...

Besides, … I ‘ m not a big pampering girl anyway.

It’s our job as filmmakers to reflect the world right now, and this year has proven that you can make these movies and make them not taste like medicine.

They really stay just characters to me. I look at them, and I don’t see always the same person up there. And hopefully, people will see that too. Because it’s very easy to bore people,...

It was a combination of my painkillers (for a neck injury) and the fact that everybody was paying tribute to this incredible woman, this incredible actress, so I had to go to the physical aspect...

we were concerned we were going to sound too broad, and maybe get laughs in the wrong way. We tried to fine-tune it a little, staying kind of neutral. Part of the transformation in any...

Besides, … Im not a big pampering girl anyway.

It was a combination of my painkillers and the fact that everybody was paying tribute to this incredible woman, this incredible actress, so I had to go to the physical aspect of kissing her a**,

It’s always nerve wracking. Any red carpet is always nerve wracking.

This has been such an incredible year,

I was very scared going in, but also really excited about doing a film using my body again. I like that she never spoke. This character, she was very quiet, but she was telling her...

I like what I do, and I’m very fortunate now to be in a very nice place. Which is that I don’t have to work anymore. So the work that I do now is purely...

People said, ‘Oh, you’re doing another ugly movie,’

because thanks to women like her, I get to work and live in a very safe environment. I respect women who come from harsher landscapes, where survival is much harder than in cities, because they...

I feel so fortunate that I am in a relationship with a wonderful man. I find it incredibly unfair that because of our sexual preference, we have the rights that we have, and that, because...

Well, because I think that there is a comfort level that you have in a relationship that I think is sometimes hard for people to get around.

I think of myself as a highly sexual creature.

This case was only settled seven years ago, and you go, ‘How dare you sit back as a young female and think the feminist movement happened in the ’60s, some bras were burned and now...

Whether its a real person or not, is irrelevant, … The human condition is the same.

I sat down with Karyn and said, `You don’t understand. I don’t know these kind of movies,’

We’ve come a long way, and changing a law is really important. What I’ve realized is laws change, but you also have to change how people think. And that takes time.

That’s the best I’ve had in years!

No matter how sexual this character is and how comfortable she is with her sexuality, we obviously knew that we couldn’t go as far with the outfits as Peter had designed for her. We still...

I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.

It was a very foreign genre to me,

Whether it ‘ s a real person or not, is irrelevant, … The human condition is the same.

This is very surreal for me because two years ago, I stood right here and won my Oscar for ‘Monster.

When they watch a movie and they know that you’re in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly.

There are these moments when you can’t back down.

Some days I look in the mirror and feel hot. Other days I say, ‘I’ve got back fat’.

Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question – I struggle with...

I think people have forgotten what actors do,

There were 400 of them, and they actually worked in the mine where this had happened,

She loved it. She said it was the best she’s had all year.