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

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" My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour. "

" I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films. "

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

" It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that. "

" I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner. "

" As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" I'm not averse to being a supporting character. I try to pick parts where I can add something. "

" Jealousy is a scary thing. "

" I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people. "

" It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one. "

" People now tell me it's a good thing I stayed away from teen films. Well, it wasn't my choice. I wasn't hired. "

" That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love. "

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

" My favorite books are psychology, self-help, and I'm fascinated by Jung, by dream work. "

" 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. "

" Ben Stiller, who I love and who is a friend and is such an incredible actor - he's hilarious, obviously, but I thought his performance in 'Greenberg' was extraordinary. "

" 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. "

" I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters. "

" It's lovely to be considered pretty and lovely to do photo shoots, and I just love fashion. But I'm proud that I did the characters I wanted to do. "

" 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 love being in my 40s. "

" Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about. "

" David Lynch is like that - every sound, every detail to the end of making the film, he never gives up. It has to be perfect. "

" For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow. "

" Any journey of a creative person has, you know, really unusual challenges and years where you don't work and years where you work. "

" When you're first reading the script and thinking about playing the part, it's slightly daunting. It's easy to question, 'Is an audience going to like me? And is that my job?' "

" I was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement. "