Holly Hunter

Do I trust myself? Sometimes I don't even know, but I can only just kind of throw my hat in the ring and hope for the best. Depending on how much I trust the other people is how much freedom I can allow myself to have on that particular set.

My sister took me as her own. My mum had a lot of help raising me. That's what happens in large families: your siblings raise you.

When the family gets together once a year in Georgia for New Year's Eve, we listen to music, all kinds of music. That's what we do.

I think that the audience feels a real connection with Zoe Kazan because she's so instantly lovable.

Actors do movies because you want to make a connection; you want an audience to recognise themselves in what it is that you're depicting.

What does it mean to believe rather than to know? To surrender to something that's not fact but faith?

I would say, yeah, I'm a spiritual person.

I don't believe in angels, and I'm not a religious person.

I'm not religious. I'm not an atheist. Would I say I'm an agnostic? Possibly. But I would say the collective unconscious is something I'm much more interested in.

Helen Mirren is, I think, one of the fascinating actresses. Period. She captivates people and has tremendous power and charisma because she has never cashed in on being an exquisite beauty, even though I think she is. I can't say I'm anything like her, but I hope something similar will happen with me.

With 'Broadcast News,' it became a non-issue, and with 'The Piano,' it became a non-issue. Both parts were written for more statuesque women. It was nice to change people's minds about that, because that's neither here nor there.

I appreciate my instincts, but my instincts can be dead wrong. Circumspection can give you time.