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" I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world. "

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" More yoga in the world is what we need. "

" I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes. "

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" I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh. "

" Love is saying you're sorry. It's the opposite of those cherub posters that say, 'Love is never having to say you're sorry.' Wrong! Love is three sorrys a day. If you haven't met that quota, something's wrong. "

" I think, certainly, directing is a visual medium, but it's also about communication, and a lot of times, great directors are lacking in communication skills, which is rather shocking to discover that. "

" Every film is its own experience, its own planet, its own family. It seems infinite when you're working on it, and then it's suddenly very finite, and it's done. "

" Things hurt me just as much as anyone else. My insecurities, failures. I'm vulnerable to comparisons. "

" All I know is it was incredible watching Robert Downey Jr. bring Chaplin to life. Talk about weight-lifting! "

" I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel. "

" I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art. "

" Essentially, my hero-role model is Muhammad Ali, because when I watched this one fight of his with my dad when I was a kid, and I watched him not go down... I think him just taking a lot of blows and not going down, it was so moving. "

" To me, there's no greater reward than being around people you care about and can be present with. "

" I'm a girl, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate greatness and the struggle of sports. My situation - and I've always said this, even in politics - is may the best man win. I'm not team-bound. "

" Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in. "

" I don't have a game plan. I never did, and it's too late to have one even if I wanted to. "

" There's a voice inside children that knows right from wrong. I call it listening to your inner Jiminy Cricket. I tell my daughter, 'If you're thinking this is not the best idea, it probably isn't.' "

" I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase. "

" What women represent to the male is, historically, a big burden. It's a lovely dream, but it's the stuff of literature, art, and everything. Living up to what the male psyche projects onto the female is the stuff of books. You'd need a lot more than an interview to go into it! "

" Secretariat was just ridiculously endowed with every positive quality that a person would seek out in a non-human. He was very aware of his environment; he surveyed the terrain before he ran and would look people in the eye. "

" Some people fascinate me. They really worship at the altar of their careers, you know? And it's terrifying. It's sort of like setting a table and waiting for someone to come along and whoosh - push all the plates onto the floor. "

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" I try not to be overly analytical. "

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" I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's a negative drag on film sets after the second week or so, a mutinous vibe because the infinite capacities of the directors and everybody else become quite finite and everybody's under the gun and it becomes work. "

" For me, I don't even like to promote my films but I have to because it's in the fine print of my contract. "

" I was, I think, extremely lucky, because the minute I saw my face plastered on 'Time' magazine in the subway with my mother, I just said, 'Wow.' And it made 'Time' magazine come down to life-size scale. "