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But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.

Going back and forth between the press and something like The Crucible must be really crazy and intense.

I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.

I've only been to Dublin once, and I had a great time. I got completely soaked because it was rainy.

I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.

I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.

Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time.

In the end, winning is sleeping better.

The world is littered with movies about people that are depressed that either did not come out or are not successful.

I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.

Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option.

I've worked with Neil Jordan, who I really adore. We did The Brave One [2007] together.

I don't like the outside world to intrude when I'm making a film. I like to either see my family or work, but I don't like to go out.

Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.

Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

It's hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them.

Sometimes, you really don't understand why something is important to you until you get halfway through the movie - or maybe even all the way through.

'Silence Of The Lambs' was not something people expected me to do.

I like to be in a different place when I make a movie so that I can't really focus on anything else, and that is your world.

I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.

Otherness is a big thing for me. I'm always drawn to characters that live lives that I couldn't lead.

Every movie changes you. The process of making a film changes you.

As time goes on, I will play characters who get older: I don't want to be some Botoxed weirdo.

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.

My earliest memories are doing commercials and TV.

I do almost all my movies in French. I dub them.

It's a skill that people are born with. Either you're a focuser or you're a multitasky person. I am a full-focus person.

I didn't grow up really wanting to be an actor. I don't remember ever not being an actor.

I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

But now I really don't want to work unless I really, really care about a project.

I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.

I love the way L A. leaves you alone. I can go home, read all day, and nobody bugs me.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago in the stone age

I'm really not a clothes person. To me, that's just work. It's the thing I hate to do the most. I don't want to be judged in that way.

I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.

I just want to make movies. I really love movies. I want to be involved with them.

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

I cannot believe in God when there is no scientific evidence for the existence of a supreme being and creator.

If I fail, at least I will have failed my way.

My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I'm always on time - or early.

I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.

'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.

I didn't work very much when they were young, and I had the luxury to be able to do that. Most people can't.

My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.

I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends.

What I didn't realize is how completely consumed I would be by my sons. I didn't know that the rest of my life would become so little a priority.

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

Where I have problems is when I am in the midst of doing something that I am completely focused on, and then I am asked to buy shoes or something.

There's absolutely no sort of acknowledgment or reward for this - except for the intangible of my kids growing up to be wonderful people.

I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.

I want to change the system from within the system. And that means focusing and specializing.

People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.

I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.

I think every movie changes me and is life changing, especially movies you direct.

This is the place where I learned to live this life, to curse this life, and to claim this life for my very own.

There is no direct evidence, so how could you ask me to believe in God ...

I've got that Irish thing going on. Lots of Irish in my background.

You guys might be surprised but I am not Honey Boo Boo Child.

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

I like to nap. I do like to sleep. Sometimes I sleep in between takes.

A woman who struggles to recover from a brutal attack and sets out on a dark, psychological and physical journey for revenge and justice.

I wish people could get over the hang-up of subtitles, although at the same time, you know, that's kind of why I'm kind of pro dubbing.

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.

People say as a woman actor your career is over at 40. But then they told me I would never work again after I was 16.

Being an artist is a way of saying, I am here, and this is what I stand for.

I'm kind of a chatterbox and I talk really fast.

I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

There is no doubt that each of us is born an individual. Why is it then that so many of us die carbon copies?

So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

I suppose that's my one little secret, the secret of my success.

You hold all of our futures in your hands. So you better make it good.

I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

When I go into the stores, I pet the saddles. Until security comes and takes me away.

I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.

Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

I did a couple of plays in junior high school, maybe high school, and then I did a play in college.

I never know what's going to move me. I'm always surprised. And it's always a mystery to the people who work with me.

I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.

I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young.

I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.

I absolutely love religions and the rituals. Even though I don't believe in God, we celebrate pretty much every religion in our family with the kids.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.

My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant.

I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

Privacy. Someday, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

I will always love psychology, and the basis of psychology is family.

I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.

I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.