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" I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious. "
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" You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them. "
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" It's not really cool to be singled out. "
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" I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should. "
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" 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.' "
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" 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. "
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" I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf. "
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" There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that. "
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" I'm a good girl, you know? But I'm from the South, and there are some powerful women down there, and very theatrical. "
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" Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation. "
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" The sound of a golf game is very different than the sound of a football game. "
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" I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining. "
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" We didn't do cotillions or anything. My family made fun of the pageants. "
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" I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to move to New York. "
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" I kind of grew up in the indie world, and now that sort of writing and material is on television. "
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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. "
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" But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake. "
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" I love playing a woman suffering, thinking about the choices that she's made and obviously wanting more. It's classic. "
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" 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. "
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" What's the difference between a personality disorder and a personality? You know? That's what I wanna know! "
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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. "
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" I traveled to Morocco once, and I only saw one television when I was there, but I did go into this dirt cave and I saw this kid chopping tomatoes and pita, and he had a picture on the wall of Jean-Claude Van Damme holding a gun. That connected with him on the other side of the world, so no wonder these big movies are made - they have a mass appeal. "
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" I had dreams of conehead aliens when I was little. Before 'Saturday Night Live' did it. And then they came out with them, and I went on to be a glorified extra in the movie. When everyone else was laughing, I was scared. "
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" I have a twin brother, so I was around guys like a sister. It was comfortable to me. "
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