I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there.

Filming is a funny combination of having a good time and not being able to wait until its over.

What's the trick to writing a great female character? Make her human.

I always had good friends, but I did not feel like a cool girl, ever.

Catherine Keener really gets me. She and I have such a shorthand together.

Hollywood always likes to create a star.

I'd rather go for Scorsese and De Niro. I just think he was so much better.

The stories that I want to tell are completely, well somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems.

I would still encourage somebody, if they wanted to make a movie, to just go take a movie camera. That's clearly been shown to work. It's just how do you get it seen?

My grandma has said many of the things her character says. But she was much nicer! I made her meaner for dramatic purposes.

If a woman gets insomnia, you never know where you're going to find her furniture the next morning. It's primal. We have so little we can control, but we can perfect the way our room looks.

As a child, I was very careful not to erase my mother's writing on the chalkboard because I would miss her.

Rags will never make fine clothing

I don’t know why I ever helped you.” “Because you like broken things.

Id never really considered film. If Id thought about film more growing up, I probably would have changed my name. I had no concept of my name in lights.

Singles are your safest songs on the records. Ones that piss fewer people off, that appeal more to the masses.

My ambition was always to be a perfect picture of an American.

I would love to do a duet with Tim McGraw. I think that would be fun.

Bruises fade. Death is permanent.

It's very clear that we are going to have 10 different [abortion] laws and that we are going to have these laws made by judges

To me, the theatre - I don't like to say it, but I'll say it - is a temple in a kind of way, where human beings go to be elevated.