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

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

" We shot 'Party Girl' on film, and I remember being told, 'We need to get this in two takes because we don't have a lot of film in the mag right now!' "

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

" You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love. "

" There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level. "

" You can get money and make a really cheap movie. You can, from independent financers who are just giving you money to support artists. This is what was happening in the '90s, and I was very fortunate to be a part of that. "

" 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 love 'Fishing With John' so much. "

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

" Mainly I love working on good writing. "

" Every time I do something, I worry it's my last job. "

" 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. "

" Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful. "

" 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. "

" Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange. "

" 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. "

" Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I've just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable. "

" Louis C.K. was able to make it happen. His producers don't bug him. He's able to go into his cave and write exactly what he wants to write, and there are no decisions made by committee, and you have a singular voice, and everyone's like, 'Oh my God! We love this.' "

" I love playing a woman suffering, thinking about the choices that she's made and obviously wanting more. It's classic. "

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

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

" How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important. "

" I like bears. I like bear people. I like bear-type men. "

" You have to have a certain amount of limitations, I think, to make art and to make something that can be alive on film. Money can get in the way of that. "

" I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side. "

" I got into the whole Ayurvedic thing. It was really cool. "

" I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me. "

" I like sitting close to windows. "

" I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy. "