People do eventually see something that's quality.

I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl

My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks.

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

People work really hard to get to a certain point. But they have to work just as hard to stay there

In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching.

Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy

I did a film about the Zodiac Killer. It turned out well

I'm attracted to roles where I don't have to wear makeup.

After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like

I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.

The time to market yourself is all of the time.

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

I like things that have to do with what is real, elegant, well presented and without excessive style. In other words, just fine observation.

Stimulate the phagocytes.

Laughter means nothing unless there have been tears.

What we think about God-what we think God is like-will determine the relationship we have with God.

Herbert used to say that he was as tight as the paper on the wall.

Plans are great, but missions are better.

What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.

The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate.