I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.

You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.

I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand.

When you look at some of the most respected actors there are and the crap that they're in... it didn't used to be that way.

I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game.

I really tried to make movies I wanted to see. I thought that if I was good enough, somebody would always need me.

Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch.

I have all this time between projects, and I'm not so sure that's a healthy thing. It's scary, because at 36 I'm woefully unqualified for anything else.

You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office.

Everybody acts like they're in a movie in most movies. That's why they stink.

It's interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a De Niro without a Scorsese.

Perimeter is not meaning, but it changes meaning, /as wit increases distance, and compassion erodes it.

Passive perception promotes pessimism

I lifted my head, my gaze meeting his. “Wanting something doesn’t guarantee you will get it.”“A man can still hope.”“I’ve never had much room for hope.

There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them. And married a seventh.

It's [motherhood] the biggest on-the-job- training program in existence today.

The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite of pioneers.

People want movies to be one thing or another; they want it be fact or fiction.

When my second husband shouted, 'Me or your writing!' I replied, 'My writing.' We separated.

If there is one thing of which I am most proud, it's that I made being ginger cool!