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" I think people probably think I self-start, but I don't... I'm an actor, and I like to be of use to the director. To be a muse. "

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" I was reading this book called 'Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind.' It's really, really good if you want to believe in that stuff. "

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

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

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

" I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl. "

" I love 'Fishing With John' so much. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I usually play character parts in Hollywood films. "

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

" I'm an actor, so I like costumes. "

" There are so few movies that still cast on chemistry. Now it's often, like, this person's movies make this amount of money, and this person's movie makes that amount of money, so let's put them together. "

" 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. "

" It's really fun to see a movie that you've heard about that's really good. "

" Why are women always described as 'desperate,' while men are just... irrational? "

" I love New York. "

" Mainly I love working on good writing. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm kind of a robot in a way. Or a Tron. "

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

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

" What's the difference between a personality disorder and a personality? You know? That's what I wanna know! "

" 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. "

" It's really weird to be taken seriously for what you're wearing. It makes me want to wear a uniform. "