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" They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would have a great date. They would totally get along. "

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" I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was 'Party Girl' or 'House of Yes.' But now with the digital camera, the budgets have gotten smaller, and the days have gotten shorter. "

" Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.' "

" I'm an actor, so I like costumes. "

" I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me. "

" I like bears. I like bear people. I like bear-type men. "

" You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love. "

" 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. "

" I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side. "

" 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. "

" I wonder if people who see 'Blade' will have even seen my other movies. But I don't want all my movies to be in a vacuum. I need a balance because one pays, and the other doesn't. "

" Every time I do something, I worry it's my last job. "

" 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. "

" I like 'MacNeil/Lehrer.' "

" Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it. "

" I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious. "

" I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing. "

" What's the difference between a personality disorder and a personality? You know? That's what I wanna know! "

" You can get money and make a really cheap movie. You can, from independent financers who are just giving you money to support artists. This is what was happening in the '90s, and I was very fortunate to be a part of that. "

" I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl. "

" I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear. "

" Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful. "

" My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994. "

" I was raised Catholic, but the devil was never with a pitchfork. "

" I'm kind of a robot in a way. Or a Tron. "

" I work with directors who haven't had the experience of being on sets as much as I have. I feel like, in a way, if it's an independent movie, I can teach the crew to kind of relax, or create a vibe. It really is about a vibe. "

" I like trying different foods. I've done vegetarian stuff, and I've gone through meat phases, and then I do no bread, and then I eat bread. I'm really all over the place in the way a lot of actors are. "

" We shot 'Party Girl' on film, and I remember being told, 'We need to get this in two takes because we don't have a lot of film in the mag right now!' "

" I've seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes. "

" Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama. "

" With 'Dazed and Confused,' I got the high school experience I didn't get to have. "