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" Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth. "

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

" 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? "

" I was the only kid in Manhattan I knew whose parents had a car. "

" Americans have an interesting conundrum, a black and white line: You're on one side or the other of Puritanism or licentiousness. But that gray area where people abide, between their ears or on the Internet, needs to be fleshed out more in terms of permission granted. "

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

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

" Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all. "

" I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship. "

" 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. "

" I'm not actively avoiding television. I just haven't found the right fit yet, as it were. And that's O.K. "

" You can't get work without working. "

" You have to realize, making movies is the weirdest thing you could ever do. It's a contrivance, but you're attempting to reach people's hearts in the dark, and there are so many factors that are out of your control. "

" The industry's memory is quite short, it's true. "

" I try not to be overly analytical. "

" I like someone who's suffered from both sides. "

" 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. "

" I'm done saying 'I'm sorry I wasn't who you needed or wanted me to be' to everybody in my life. "

" The potential hot tomato of today can turn into the cold pop tart of tomorrow, and I know that. "

" It's nice to have a pause to parent and to be more present at home, teaching them how to drive cars and navigate boys and all this sort of thing. "

" A lot can change in the editing room. "

" 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. "

" I just enjoy going to the games, but if you're watching the Lakers play, it feels good to be rooting for the Lakers. You're on the winning end of things most of the time. "

" You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or what have you. "

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

" Imagine if somebody said your nose is too big or your ears stick out. For me, it was my neck was too short. It stuck with me all my life. "

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

" I love my work, but there is no price you can put on what you miss when you are away from your kids. "

" I believe that the female perspective is a very healing and circumspect one, and we have a right to equal voice. "

" When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough. "