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" 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!' "

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" Why are women always described as 'desperate,' while men are just... irrational? "

" I'm a good girl, you know? But I'm from the South, and there are some powerful women down there, and very theatrical. "

" I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s. "

" I like 'MacNeil/Lehrer.' "

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

" 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. "

" I love playing a woman suffering, thinking about the choices that she's made and obviously wanting more. It's classic. "

" My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I care about being creative and expressing myself. "

" There are so few movies that still cast on chemistry. Now it's often, like, this person's movies make this amount of money, and this person's movie makes that amount of money, so let's put them together. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" It sounds so dramatic, but I'll say it: Hollywood just doesn't know what to do with me. And it's not for lack of trying. "

" I love New York. "

" The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies. "

" I sang in 'Waiting for Guffman,' and I sang in 'A Mighty Wind.' I can carry a tune, but I don't like that Broadway singing. "

" 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. "

" Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation. "