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" When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble. "

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" I will be working with David Lynch when I'm 80. "

" You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating. "

" Sadly, half of marriages end in divorce. Half of my girl friends and male friends have been through one, and their kids are doing great. There's no shame around it - unless you want to project that on to yourself - but certainly there's no longer cultural shame. Everyone is walking through it. "

" My dad taught me to never be pigeonholed; to really allow yourself to reinvent characters as they reinvent you; to be bold and to be willing to play seemingly unlikeable people. "

" 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 don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60. "

" I know that I've seen a mannerism, or a way I've cried, or something, where I see a flash of my parents. "

" Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got. "

" It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent. "

" What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you? "

" God bless nannies. "

" Every role is a new form of surrender. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Me and Woody Harrelson, we're twins. We're the same person. I should only make movies with him. "

" 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's something so accessible about heroes who have faults. "

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

" I was on the cover of a lot of magazines, and there were compliments about beauty and fashion and what I was wearing. Man, if you get locked into that, you can lose your freedom as an actress. "

" 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. "

" I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we heal? How do we survive this experience while remaining hopeful instead of filled with despair? That's what interests me. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I've always loved film more than theater. "

" Having egregious divorces - where you just hate each other - is really the easy way out. "

" I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films. "

" 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. "

" I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people. "