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I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s.
Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.
What's the difference between a personality disorder and a personality? You know? That's what I wanna know!
When I did 'Guffman,' it was terrifying. I didn't know what to say. I started talking, and it just came out.
I really liked playing a vampire. Their hunger is insatiable. Even when they eat someone, it's never enough.
They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.
There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.
I haven't seen a bear in person. I've seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes.
I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.
Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.
I love the romcom. I thought I had a career playing the best friend. What happened to that? It's really sad to me.
I would like a nice, powerful, mind-altering substance. Preferably one that will make my unborn children grow gills.
I'm a good girl, you know? But I'm from the South, and there are some powerful women down there, and very theatrical.
I love playing a woman suffering, thinking about the choices that she's made and obviously wanting more. It's classic.
I've done a lot of crafts in my day. I learned how to do pottery, yoga... and I just wanted to share and talk and write.
It sounds so dramatic, but I'll say it: Hollywood just doesn't know what to do with me. And it's not for lack of trying.
I sang in 'Waiting for Guffman,' and I sang in 'A Mighty Wind.' I can carry a tune, but I don't like that Broadway singing.
The culture is eating nature; it's overpowering storytelling. Movies are turning into games - it's abut the image, not nuance.
I think people probably think I self-start, but I don't... I'm an actor, and I like to be of use to the director. To be a muse.
I like finding things in locations where I've worked and things from down South and things from flea markets or even the sidewalks.
As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something.
I was reading this book called 'Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind.' It's really, really good if you want to believe in that stuff.
My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.
I don't want to sound like too much of a drama queen! But I'm not going to tell you, 'Oh, it's just so much fun.' It's work [working on film].
They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would have a great date. They would totally get along.
I find myself listening to Talk Talk on repeat while I'm doing gardening in upstate New York. Their music is so languid, and I just love his voice.
Time is weird in your twenties. It's intense, and you feel like it's running out. But you'll get to thirty and see you are still here on the planet.
It's overshadowed, the art. We're in a really argumentative, black-and-white-thinking culture right now. There's not a lot of time to take things in.
We shot 'Party Girl' on film, and I remember being told, 'We need to get this in two takes because we don't have a lot of film in the mag right now!'
Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I've just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable.
There are so few stories being produced that are human. I suffer with the loss of that. I feel kind of out of place, even though I've continued to work.
You have to have a certain amount of limitations, I think, to make art and to make something that can be alive on film. Money can get in the way of that.
As an actor in these movies you get to fill up something so much, to its capacity, and once you get there you're like a horse running onto the racetrack.
I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like
I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like.
I think movies are now like going to a museum and seeing the latest exhibit - people just aren't going. It really is a dying art form. It feels frustrating.
I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.
You're talking to someone, to a reader, and you get to express in the way you want to. And you get to play with it. It's kind of like acting, but it's on paper.
How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important.
My aunt in Texas, when she did the hazing things, they had girls swallow oysters. They'd wrap an oyster in dental floss, swallow them, and then pull them back up.
I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
I don't have a publisher yet, so I'm not in the process of that next stage and I don't know what that's going to look like. So I feel like I finished stage one [with my book].
In the '90s, indie movies could get financing, because financers gave money straight to directors... Now it's a different system. Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system.
There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.
I wonder if people who see 'Blade' will have even seen my other movies. But I don't want all my movies to be in a vacuum. I need a balance because one pays, and the other doesn't.
But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake
But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.
Early on it was much easier to play leads, but now independent movies are being co-opted by the studio system, and they want bigger names to guarantee more audience and more numbers.
The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies.