Filming is a funny combination of having a good time and not being able to wait until its over.

What's the trick to writing a great female character? Make her human.

I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there.

I always had good friends, but I did not feel like a cool girl, ever.

Catherine Keener really gets me. She and I have such a shorthand together.

Hollywood always likes to create a star.

I'd rather go for Scorsese and De Niro. I just think he was so much better.

The stories that I want to tell are completely, well somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems.

I would still encourage somebody, if they wanted to make a movie, to just go take a movie camera. That's clearly been shown to work. It's just how do you get it seen?

My grandma has said many of the things her character says. But she was much nicer! I made her meaner for dramatic purposes.

If a woman gets insomnia, you never know where you're going to find her furniture the next morning. It's primal. We have so little we can control, but we can perfect the way our room looks.

Whatever I experienced in the world that I didn't understand I'd invent a story and workout my understanding of something through the story.

I've always liked older men. They're just more attractive to me. Of course, at my age there aren't that many left!

You know, as I do, actors who, having become worldwide celebrities thanks to a TV series, complain of their lot and declare themselves ready to drop it all.

The universe is bound by unseen threads. We have only to untangle them a little to see a pattern unfold.

The action we take in the next few years will impact the Earth hundreds of millions of years from now.

Books do not simply happen to people. People also happen to books.

We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters.

There is no such thing as a villain. It's the others who are wrong. In as much, all villains are the same.

Works for me. For the ones we love, today we’re allies. Tomorrow we resume our natural order of mortal enemies. Gentlemen, and I use that term loosely for all of us, have we an accord? (Acheron)

By experience", says Roger Ascham, "we find out a short way by a long wandering." Not seldom that long wandering unfits us for further travel, and of what use is our experience to us then?