I left our home to work on a movie, and while I was away, my boyfriend [Billy Bob Thorton] got married, and I've never heard from him again.

Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.

I love to rescue animals.... The pounds were so crowded they were putting animals down almost immediately. Seven thousand dogs were put to sleep.

I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.

The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour

If my career were a hairstyle, it would be helmet-head.

Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about

We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that

What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?

You don't have to run away from life your whole life. You can really live. You can change. And you can be an agent of change.

There is so much in the world to care about.

The creative mind plays with the object it loves.

It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.

He looks like the sort of man who can't afford to leave, and doesn't want to stay, and so he is doing both at once.

If they don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.

Oh now that's a blueprint for an impossibly rosy future

We were making the future and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!

God is the shield of the nonviolent.

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp.

The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.