It’s really fun to act like a bimbo. But it’s fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren’t one.
You can hardly tell where the computer models finish and the real dinosaurs begin.
The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
You don’t have to run away from life your whole life. You can really live. You can change. And you can be an agent of change.
I don’t turn my nose up at anything. If it’s a great part, it’s a great part. I’d love to do a box-office hit.
I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.
You can change. And you can be an agent of change.
I just love, I love, I love movies.
It’s a strange world, as David Lynch would say.
It’s always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.
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 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.
Luckily, I was raised by people whod already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didnt want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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.
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.
We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn’t work out like that.
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.
When man decides he can control nature, he’s in deep trouble.
There’s always a side of a woman that likes a man from the other side of the tracks.
There’s something so accessible about heroes who have faults.