I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films.
Laura DernI wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.
Laura DernWhat do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?
Laura DernI would say Steven Spielberg is family to me. He's a genius. We survived a hurricane together. I ran from half-puppet,half-nothing creatures. It was months of our life as family. It was the wildest film, Jurassic Park, I'd ever worked on that way.
Laura Dern