When I go into making a movie, personally, I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me. I think that finding a character, relating to her and making her as real as possible means forgetting all of that stuff and just trying to find the truth, in that particular character's words.

Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.

I think my mother realized she had a somewhat unusual daughter pretty early on.

For the most part I pick movies based on the merit of the script, and the merit of the script only.

Every article I've read about myself always winds up concluding that I am not, in fact, completely stupid.

I think there's a part when you sign your soul to the devil and start working in Los Angeles that you also sign away that you could be a human being in anyone's eye. You're like a robot!

I went to a Catholic school but did not really fit in.