I don't flirt and I don't play the people that I'm meeting with.

Twin Peaks was special because it was so groundbreaking. In the early 90s it really changed television a lot. A bunch of weird shows, like Northern Exposure, came on after that.

In a perfect world, I could be doing some bigger films and balance that with some independent films because they seem to be the most challenging and unique

I was a brat. It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn't take advantage of what was happening

Bleaching my hair for Two Moon Junction... my hair was fried and I looked like an idiot.

I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes.

Even if your work touches one person, that's an amazing gift.

I think there's an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we're complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen

Now I know why guys like to hug girls. You guys just want to cop a feel. I can't believe that I've fallen for it all these years!

I'm honest. I say what I feel. I try to be tactful, but I can't not say what I feel. I have a really big problem with that.

I loved working on Of Mice and Men. It was a wonderful group of people. John Malkovich is to me one of the best actors around right now-and a lot of fun to work with.

When I was just a cute little caterpillar, you loved me. So I became a butterfly so you would never leave.

Be so good with your craft to the point that you would no longer have to beg for opportunities.

I'm rather inclined to liking people.

Al Gore clearly has the vision... it's a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.

I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.

How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?

I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.

I am in fear, there is no humour left in public life because of this fear.

I shall play Scarlett O'Hara.

The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts.