I knew Spike Jonze would do something really interesting with it.

I knew Spike Jonze would do something really interesting with it.

It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer.

I wasn't around when Nic was playing Donald. I was around with Charlie.

I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.

It may be unfair of me but I do feel I know it.

I always think of the word 'abandonment' when I think of the character.

What he's done is recognise the cinematic nature of the book. It's beautifully realised - it's a beat film.

Faith is in the eye of the beholder.

Nic's Charlie is something very particular. You can't really put them together. It's a phantasm.

Everybody thinks for one moment when they're pregnant that they're actually carrying the spawn of the devil.

I do like not knowing where I'm going, wandering in strange woods, whistling and following bread crumbs.

I don't have a career, I have a life. I don't have an exterior judgment on what would be good or bad for me.

I don't love the theatre. I'm just not one of them.

I find myself apologising for not being a proper actor. I never intended to be involved in the film industry and still do feel that, with the exception of a couple of brief skirmishes with the film industry.

I remember noticing, when I had my babies, how much I liked them, and not just loved them, but I was really into them. I knew I was going to be curious about them and up for the mayhem ahead. But at the same time, I remember noticing I was relieved this thing was present in me. And I hadn't realised there might be a doubt.

I sometimes think I was always left-wing. I know that sounds completely crazy, but I do know that I asked questions when I was about four, and I remember noticing that I wasn't getting an answer, and I remember it annoying me.

I was talking recently with a friend of mine who's determined to never meet her heroes, and I have another friend who's been horribly disillusioned a couple of times. But I've had a wonderful ride with meeting people who have been my North Stars, and Bowie's definitely one of them. He feels like my cousin; like the cousin I never had.

I'm a Marvel fan, and I think this particular world that 'Doctor Strange' goes into is really, really, really exciting. I'm really interested as both an actor and a fan to see what's done in this particular world. It's all about creativity. It's not about everything exploding at the end. It's about something very different.

I'm a huge Marvel fan, and the fact that they take the liberties that they do in filmmaking - I think, if anything, that it dignifies the comics, and it says, 'Yeah. This is a strong enough, robust enough source. We can bend it; it's elastic. It's bouncy.'

I'm very often referred to as 'Sir' in elevators and such. I think it has to do with being this tall and not wearing much lipstick. I think people just can't imagine I'd be a woman if I look like this.

My whole relationship with Bowie started when I was 13, and I bought a copy of 'Aladdin Sane' when I didn't have a record player. I had this record for a year before I could play it, and it was the image - not the sound - that I was attracted to. I just saw this image and thought he was my cousin.

Nobody is working for Marvel who isn't a super-fan. And it's run by the biggest super-fan of them all.

One of the wonderful things that I've always loved as an art student, what I always loved about comics, was that they are interpreted differently by different graphic artists all the time, so now film is doing that thanks to Marvel Studios.

The thing that keeps me being a performer is my interest in society's obsession with identity, because I'm not sure that I really believe identity exists.

There is something insane about a lack of doubt. Doubt - to me, anyway - is what makes you human, and without doubt, even the righteous lose their grip, not only on reality but also on their humanity.

This is the launch of the 'Doctor Strange' film interpretation of - in my view - a classic, which has been interpreted many times by other graphic artists, and this is just our graphic interpretation of The Ancient One. I would say the whole approach is about a kind of fluidity.

Usually, with me, the project is always the second thing. The film-maker comes first. Films grow out of the relationship.

Sexuality is, of course, a great way of having a conversation between people.

When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life.

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

I did not think this doll could ever be this huge.

When I was a girl, my grandmother would take me during the holidays to see the windows at Saks and Rockefeller Center.

I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didn't exist there.

The question that I started off with was, I thought, very simple. It was just 'Is there a massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way?' But one of the things I love about science is that you always end up with new questions.

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.

Can you tell me what's more unconstitutional than taking away from the people of America their Fifth Amendment rights, their Fourteenth Amendment rights, and the right to equal protection under the law?

I'm not a girl who sits home and knits, you know.

My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love.

From 1966 to 1970 I served as Chairman of the New Haven City Plan Commission.

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that dont work.

I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink.

The tang of tamarind is a great way both to flavour and lighten up slow-cooked savoury dishes.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

The main way to reduce stress in the workplace is by picking the right people.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect It's successful outcome.

It's long been a cliche in Washington that if you hang a lamb chop in your window, guests will come.