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

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.

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.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

The sweet pleasure of prayer, the grace of the soul.

It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.

Ive got a fantasy-baseball team with my brother. But I have to admit, he does all the work.

There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, we are, and we will be.

A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages.

I'm pretty much your average, energy-saving-light-bulbs-recycling citizen.

We have an opportunity to get better.

Planning other people's actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.

Since I was a kid, I've been a dancer, and, of course, I'll always be a dancer till the day I die.