I think it works better with a woman, which is why I decided to do it, ... men know how to separate themselves from their child. Women lose that ability. |
I think that women are more interesting in their forties. - interestingly enough said in the year Jodie was 40! |
I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young. |
I'm afraid of being alone, |
I'm not making any rules about it, ... I don't think you really have to. Who knows, maybe I'm retired now! Maybe I'll never work again. |
I've gone through phases of just forgiving your parents for not being as young as they used to be or not being able to do the things they could do before, and I think this film is about forgiveness. It has a real fondness and a real bitterness as well towards family members. |
In a post-9/11 world, everybody is looking over their shoulder and wondering if the next guy is the one who is going to take you down. |
It becomes this weird reality — 12 hours a day stuck inside this tube. Half the time the (background actors) were really sleeping. It was like a real airplane, so they were all knocked out. |
It doesn't feel like a long time to me. My life is full. I have new priorities. I've been working a long time, so now I do movies for a different reason than I did for much of my career. |
It was like working on a cruise ship. |
It's a primal thing, this very unconscious place with the fears of what can happen to your children and will you be able to keep them safe. I like all the different levels of fear that she goes through, from feeling like her daughter's out there somewhere, to worrying that somebody is hurting her. Then there's that place of utter desperation where you wonder if you're completely insane. Then there's that final turn, when she turns into a robot who will take anyone down. |
It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me. |
It's kind of about a vigilante, somebody who has been the victim of a crime and who can't quite get over it and then finds herself mowing people down. |
It's my job, ... I wouldn't not promote my movie and you want to get out there and tell people what it's about and to communicate why you loved it. |
Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships |