When you're playing someone who has a strong ego about themselves, you can't play them when you have the opposite opinion of the one they have of themselves.
Laura DernWild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.
Laura DernWhether a movie part comes to me or I seek it out, there's always this journey to darkness through light, or vice versa; that element has been in almost everything I've done.
Laura Dern