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" I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on. "

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" It's one thing to have forced time off as an actor, and another thing when you actually say, 'I don't want to read anything, and I don't want to talk to anybody.' "

" Everything's cyclical. Having been raised by actors, I watched their careers, and the challenge is to take time off. "

" Going to the Academy Awards is something I remember since I was six, when I went with my mom for the first time, 14 with my dad, you know, and there I am, at 22, 23, whatever I was, sitting next to my mom. You know, and then again, there with my dad. Like, there's a beauty to it, and I care deeply about film history. "

" God bless nannies. "

" I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other. "

" To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it. "

" I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave. "

" My daughter wants to do yoga with me and wants to be in the theater thing, and I can't tell her, 'Don't be an actress.' My son loves guitar and loves to be in a band and wants his iTunes downloaded with all this old-school hip-hop so he understands where hip-hop came from. "

" Like anything else, acting can become boring - a chore, really - if there isn't any challenge. And I like taking challenges. Just when people think they have me figured out, I like to surprise them. "

" I got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky. "

" For me, the key is years of the blessed filmmakers I've worked with giving me permission to be bold and jump off cliffs and to be boundaryless. I would put David Lynch at the top of that list. "

" Anybody you make a movie with when you're 12 and they're 14, you're going to know them your whole life. "

" It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say. "

" If I had different parents who were in it for the money, I might have a different perspective. But they really are artists; they intelligently approach each character and prepare in every sense of the word. I grew up in a world that had great discipline. "

" I try to do things I love or care about for some reason. "

" I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit. "

" I've worked with David Lynch since I was 17, and working with him is home and family; being around Alexander Payne is home and family, Jonathan Demme. There are directors... Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson... They are directors where I create homes. "

" I think my mom exposed me to the concept of using your voice for anything you care about. "

" Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes. "

" Every role is a new form of surrender. "

" I've got the sort of personality that requires me to find some sort of release, and for me, it's performing. "

" Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate. "

" Sometimes my family got me in the door. Somebody would say, 'Bruce Dern's daughter - sure I'd like to meet her.' It was a point of interest. But after five minutes of talking about my father, I still had to read for the part. "

" I worked with HBO on 'Recount,' and we had a wonderful experience together. I'm such a fan of HBO and how much flexibility they give in character as well as schedule. "

" I've seen 3-D movies where it seems a little crude or too in-your-face. "

" Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for. "

" Stay true to your own voice, and don't worry about needing to be liked or what anybody else thinks. Keep your eyes on your own paper. "

" I was raised on movie sets, and I decided for myself at a very young age that it was what I wanted to do. "

" There are people who consider it almost unpatriotic to be inquisitive and to be truthful about your opinions. "

" If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build. "