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" I would love to do something like 'Fishing With John.' "
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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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" There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months. "
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" They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore. "
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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've seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes. "
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" Mainly I love working on good writing. "
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" Why are women always described as 'desperate,' while men are just... irrational? "
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" I like to support local record stores. "
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" It's really fun to see a movie that you've heard about that's really good. "
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" I learned how to play mandolin for 'A Mighty Wind!' "
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" Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director. "
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" I just want to balance myself holistically and see what different foods do what to me. "
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" I like the two worlds coming together in the Internet space, which is so up for grabs... It all struck me when I heard about Twitter and Instagram, how it's like notes you pass in class. If someone's passing you a note, you really should be doing something else, and instead you're like, oh, 'What are you doing?' "
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" I like bears. I like bear people. I like bear-type men. "
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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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" My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994. "
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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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" Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it. "
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" We didn't do cotillions or anything. My family made fun of the pageants. "
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" The sound of a golf game is very different than the sound of a football game. "
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" Chris Guest has his own form. It's a way of working that is really intense, and you can commit a lot, and you focus a lot. You get to bring a lot. You get to bring things maybe you haven't seen before. You're asked to care a great deal for these people who you're playing and create heart and empathy. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should. "
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" Every time I do something, I worry it's my last job. "
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" You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love. "
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" As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something. "
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