I think any big success is paralyzing. I have observed it in others.

Bettie Page was the first person to do bondage as fashion, because for her it really was all about dressing up.

I grew up interested in the underside of Hollywood, which I think David Lynch does really well.

I had long periods where I couldn't make things happen, and then periods of enormous good luck. I guess the trick is to keep going in the periods when you're not lucky, when your stars are not aligned.

The really important people in TV are not the directors; they're the writers.

At any age you can start over. You have to drop the idea of where you should be in your career. And you have to do without a lot of love. Not everyone's going to love you.

Growing up, I was lucky that my dad was never out of work. I was very fortunate in one way: that I never experienced real hardship, because my dad is this real dynamo. He was always working, so I had a sense of the ups and downs and endless disappointments, but at the same time I was never worried that we couldn't eat or pay the bills.