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" With 'Mask,' 'Smooth Talk' and 'Blue Velvet,' I loved the specific experiences so much. Each one was a specific filmmaker with a specific vision. "

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" 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 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. "

" I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that. "

" In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling. "

" We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" Meditation is a practice that is considered mainstream: The NFL uses it, the NBA uses it, heart patients use it. It's very easy to consider yourself a meditator and not be too alternative-minded. "

" I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood. "

" Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job. "

" I'm a natural blonde. I was a towhead as a kid, and then it got ashier when I was 18. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric. "

" It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film. "

" I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most wonderful. "

" My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother. "

" All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human - honest in some way. "

" 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. "

" The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Every role is a new form of surrender. "

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

" There are artists or filmmakers or cinematographers who have had long careers who, maybe to reinvent themselves or just to stay in a secure place, layer it on or ham it up, if I can use that expression, or make grand choices that don't feel as authentic as what they did to make us fall in love with them in the first place. "

" I care a lot about fragrance not only in my life, but sometimes it feels right while working on a character. "

" 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. "