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!

Diane Lane

I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.

Diane Lane

All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed - the wind and the water hitting them, shaping them, making them what they are. Things take time, you know?

Diane Lane

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

Diane Lane

I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.

Diane Lane

You are the age of your spine. You are as flexible as your spine. That transfers to other areas of your life.

Diane Lane

The largest room in the world is room for improvement. You know, some mornings my thighs are fat. Some days my hair looks great. That's the human condition.

Diane Lane

To be honest, relationships with the opposite sex are the most challenging things I've done. You lose your compass, gravity changes, you don't know what's up or down, you're trying to figure it out. You're trying to make everybody happy, including yourself, and it's just... it's humbled me.

Diane Lane

When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.

Diane Lane

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

Diane Lane

It's rare that you get to have a lovely time of it and you're not just portraying endless trauma on film.

Diane Lane

A lot can change in the editing room.

Diane Lane

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.

Diane Lane

I've always been a daddy's girl, and that's served me well in life; most of my directors have been male.

Diane Lane

Playing dead is difficult with a full bladder.

Diane Lane

I was really fortunate that I was not in 'successful movies' when I was younger, because whatever's given, there's an undertow that wants to take it away.

Diane Lane

Pete Docter's a genius isn't he?

Diane Lane

I had a hard time calling Laurence Oliver 'Larry.'

Diane Lane

I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen.

Diane Lane

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

Diane Lane

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

Diane Lane