If people knew what made hits they'd make more of them, so to have the illusion of control over one's career isn't something I can even pretend to have.
I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.
Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging.
I love my work, but there is no price you can put on what you miss when you are away from your kids.
Well, I can fake my way around some things, but I don't think I would be good at betting.
I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have!
For me, I don't even like to promote my films but I have to because it's in the fine print of my contract.
Because I tend to kind of hide under the sheets when it comes to reality television. I've seen probably one episode of maybe five different shows, and that's about it.
So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.
I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase.
My roles are in some way like children to me. You don't ever really want to scrape one off your shoe.
I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's a negative drag on film sets after the second week or so, a mutinous vibe because the infinite capacities of the directors and everybody else become quite finite and everybody's under the gun and it becomes work.
I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.
I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen. I don't know how people raise children and direct films. I'm sorry, I don't know, how can you be good at both?
I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.
I think I'd be in an entirely different business if it were easy.
It's nice to have a pause to parent and to be more present at home, teaching them how to drive cars and navigate boys and all this sort of thing.
I don't lie. I would never stuff my bra because it's going to come off and the truth is going to be revealed. I don't like that padding. I try to be completely - if not brutally - honest.
When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.
Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.
