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" I think that no human gets away unscathed in this old life. We've all experienced loss and grief and pain and tragedy. "

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" I'm a fool for a brilliant filmmaker. And for someone who wants to try new things. "

" I live a very wonderful life centered in my home and community. We're real involved with the school. "

" I think giving up people is a difficult thing. "

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" I'm a flower gardener. "

" You want to live your life and live it just as fully and as deeply as you can. That's your deep well of reserve. That's where you get all your - the fodder for your work. "

" That was the magical thing about the Seventies: artists ruled. Because films were relatively low-budget, nobody cared. We could just go off and work. "

" I think my mother's family came on the Mayflower from England - D.A.R., you know. "

" I loved growing up in a little town. I loved knowing people. I loved going to the store and running into people. I loved going into the store and having forgotten my bag, saying, 'Charge it, put it on my bill.' I loved going to the gas station and saying, 'Pete, fill it up.' I loved that continuity of life. "

" Nature is my church. The wind in the trees and the bugs and the frogs. All those things are comfort to me. "

" Film is an amazing art form, but so is life. When your career and your life can work together, and one can support the other, it's just great. "

" I need to fill myself up with real life. That's kind of the well I draw from. "

" Rarely in film acting do you get to do a scene for very long. "

" There's nothing like not washing your teeth or washing your face or brushing your teeth in the morning. "

" Texas is so big, and the place where I grew up was so little, and I was such a little thing growing up in the middle of it. I had two choices: I could either spend my life feeling insignificant, or I could look on the life I lived as a microcosm of the universe. "

" Nature is really big and loud the farther south you get. "

" For a while, I just sang at a steakhouse. I would go from table to table and really just survived on tips. "

" My father's family is German and Czech. "

" It's really about the work - if you are doing it for the right reasons - really to illuminate the human condition. "

" When I first met David Lynch, he was living in the stables of the American Film Institute... He'd work all night and have his crew lock him in during the day, and he'd sleep. "

" I wanted to put all my family stories down for my girls, and I remember everything so vividly. I just wanted to put everything down while I still can remember it all. "

" When I started out in independent films in the early '70s, we did everything for the love of art. It wasn't about money and stardom. That was what we were reacting against. You'd die before you'd be bought. "

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" It's really nice when the studio is behind what you're doing, because that's often not the case. "