After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie.

I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl

My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks.

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

People work really hard to get to a certain point. But they have to work just as hard to stay there

In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching.

Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy

I did a film about the Zodiac Killer. It turned out well

I'm attracted to roles where I don't have to wear makeup.

After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like

I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.

I’ll help you, if you admit since our first kiss you imagined us together so many times that the images of us haunt you at night and sour the touch of any other man.

The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning.

BARQI: AESTHETICS IS ONLY THE LOWEST FORM OF PERCEPTION OF THE REAL.

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define.

At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface.

Lots of shy people dress a bit too much. It's just kind of an armour. People say the same thing about me.

When I’m rested, I’m at my best.

Love much dear friends for love will bring the healing joy and hope of Spring. . .

The introduction of resistance in form of sand and hill is too important to be ignored.

Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.