Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.
There is so much in the world to care about.
It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great ’30’s film.
I’ve always loved film more than theater.
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’m interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.
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.
I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.
If my career were a hairstyle, it would be helmet-head.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is one of the greatest films of all time.
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.
What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?
That’s life – to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love.
Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.