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" Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director. "

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" It's always the girl comedy and the guy comedy. It bums me out. You'd think there'd be a progression, from James L. Brooks and Nora Ephron into more subtle humor and behavior and psychology. All these interesting things people can learn about themselves by watching talented writers comment intelligently on someone else's emotional life. "

" I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s. "

" How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them. "

" I like to support local record stores. "

" I like trying different foods. I've done vegetarian stuff, and I've gone through meat phases, and then I do no bread, and then I eat bread. I'm really all over the place in the way a lot of actors are. "

" We didn't do cotillions or anything. My family made fun of the pageants. "

" I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing. "

" It's not really cool to be singled out. "

" I just want to balance myself holistically and see what different foods do what to me. "

" The culture is eating nature; it's overpowering storytelling. Movies are turning into games - it's abut the image, not nuance. "

" Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.' "

" My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward. "

" I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like. "

" Sometimes I go to movies, and it's just a bombardment, and I'm not entertained by them - I'm assaulted by them! And I know I sound like such a drama queen, but I find that really strange. "

" I have a twin brother, so I was around guys like a sister. It was comfortable to me. "

" I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was 'Party Girl' or 'House of Yes.' But now with the digital camera, the budgets have gotten smaller, and the days have gotten shorter. "

" I get to enter into the world the director has created: to live these different lives on top of my own life. "

" I've seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes. "

" People see images now more than they see movies. "

" It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it. "

" The sound of a golf game is very different than the sound of a football game. "

" People have more dimensions to them than we give them credit for. The person you meet on the street that you think is someone, and it's someone else. I'm mistaken for someone else all the time. "

" I love bayou life. "

" I love the romcom. I thought I had a career playing the best friend. What happened to that? It's really sad to me. "

" Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation. "

" I was raised Catholic, but the devil was never with a pitchfork. "

" I find myself listening to Talk Talk on repeat while I'm doing gardening in upstate New York. Their music is so languid, and I just love his voice. "

" I sang in 'Waiting for Guffman,' and I sang in 'A Mighty Wind.' I can carry a tune, but I don't like that Broadway singing. "

" With 'Dazed and Confused,' I got the high school experience I didn't get to have. "

" Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama. "