I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.

There are so many brilliant women on television right now.

My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.

Once when we were fifteen, River (Phoenix) and I went out for this fancy dinner in Manhattan and I ordered soft-shell crabs. He left the restaurant and walked around on Park Avenue, crying. I went out and said, "I love you so much. Why?" He had such a pain that I was eating an animal, that he hadn't impressed on me what was right. I loved him for that. For his dramatic desire that we share every belief, that I be with him all the way

Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.

I don't know if I've learned anything about people, but I've learned about Twitter.

If I'm enjoying myself, I find my opportunities for more fun become greater.