I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl
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.
I went to Catholic high school, so my being in this [the craft] is not going to make my grandmother very happy. It's funny, because I was the only one who is Catholic in it. You have this thing in mass where you have to genuflect before you go into the pew, so I said you have to do this [for a scene] and they said why, and I said because you have to; I don't know why, it's a rule. Or like instinct. It's funny they set in a Catholic school. I went to St. Ignatius College Prep - "Where Modesty is our Policy."
I don't know if directors go, 'Hey! We've got another suicide-let's call Robin Tunney! It's weird, but they're all different, and I guess it gives the characters some kind of power... At least I play women who are strong enough to take the power into their own hands! And kill themselves! So many women in films just shoot themselves in the head anyway, because they're not really there for any reason.
You don't make movies to win awards. You make movies because you want people to see them.
I like watching a man boss everybody around. It's so sexy
Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy
I'm attracted to roles where I don't have to wear makeup.
I did a film about the Zodiac Killer. It turned out well
I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.
I always try to be careful when an actor who is like 70 walks onto my set at work, I don't want them to get called in five hours early or block shoot something. I think you need to treat them with respect and dignity.
People do eventually see something that's quality.
I'm really proud to have been in The Craft. I will always be that chick from The Craft, no matter what I do.
The Craft was what it was. People who respond to that movie respond to it really strongly.
I've quoted Lost in America several times.
Im a firm believer that actors take to work who they arent at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.
After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie.
I haven't really done a lot of comedies. I don't know why, because I really like them
Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife
Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters
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 usually play disenfranchised youth
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.
