'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time.
All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.
Any journey of a creative person has, you know, really unusual challenges and years where you don't work and years where you work.
Anybody you make a movie with when you're 12 and they're 14, you're going to know them your whole life.
As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time.
At the end of the day, you have to sit with the scripts and decide where your heart is.
Being an actress my whole life, it feels so good to have a clean face when I'm off, so I'm not a big makeup wearer.
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.
Decision-making is very scary for me.
Diet is weird. It's elusive. I just try to listen to my body.
Every role is a new form of surrender.
Everything's cyclical. Having been raised by actors, I watched their careers, and the challenge is to take time off.
For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.
God bless nannies.
Having egregious divorces - where you just hate each other - is really the easy way out.
Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.
I always wanted to do a 'Ms. Smith Goes to Washington.'
I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
I care a lot about fragrance not only in my life, but sometimes it feels right while working on a character.
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 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 got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky.
I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
I have never been someone who applied 'work begets work' to my career, sometimes unfortunately.
I know that I've seen a mannerism, or a way I've cried, or something, where I see a flash of 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 love being in my 40s.
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.
