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Having an education is invaluable.
I want roles that challenge people to question where they are in life.
There is a need, especially right now in America, to be a bit provocative.
I really want my kids to feel, is that they can be themselves in the world.
Simple black-and-white thinking or action is always going to be problematic.
Every actor has to find space where they are free, in order to do good work.
I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.
I have a raging temper. I'll shout and scream, then it passes like a wicked storm.
I find myself more and more interested only in roles which move the world forward.
Honestly, I'm always aware of the political implications of the movies that I make.
Someone who's 26, 27, has a very different relationship to sex than someone who's 30.
I do seem to have a bit of a predilection for movies that say something transgressive.
To get people emotionally involved in something intellectual and political is important.
You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
I don't think I'm a brilliant writer, but I'm a good writer, and it's just so empowering to get involved.
It's a hard life to have sex with eight to 10 men a night. That's hard physically, let alone emotionally.
I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.
Sometimes things go really well, and sometimes they don't, and it's not ultimately the most important thing.
I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
I need very little to work, because I learned how to make movies on tiny movies. It's all kind of easy for me.
Acting is really important to me, so I think it would be really hard for me to do something I didn't believe in.
There are things that are really disappointing about being an actress in Hollywood that surprise me all the time.
I said to Ramona [my daughter] once ... you should never look yourself up on the Internet. It's something I've learned.
I would like to have a home in the country that I could go to. First in this country and the other in the Mediterranean.
The real test will be having a family; when I have a family you have to come home, you have to eat dinner with your kids.
I think most human beings, even if you're in a situation that's constricting or complicated or hard, they try to survive.
I have a couple of girlfriends who are like healing. We take care of each other. They know when I need to be taken care of.
I'm not interested in showing the wish of what it looks like to be human. I'm interested in showing what it actually looks like.
I would like to do a big movie that many, many people see but I just know I would be miserable if it didn't have something to it.
I'm playing somebody who is a recovering drug addict who got out of prison. It takes place in 2 weeks-the 1st 2 weeks I'm out of prison.
I'm pretty good at indulging myself. I'm about to go travel for a week. I like to get massaged, go into steam rooms. I take care of myself.
What I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary.
The older I get, the more vulnerable I get. But the part of me that resists that, that is stubborn and wants to bulldoze things, gets in my way.
I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Sometimes I go too far one way or too far the other.
I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.
I think it's worth putting energy into affirmative action in terms of having diversity in positions of power because the door was shut for so long.
I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things.
A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.
I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over.
We were lounging around in this beautiful house in LA, and I'm coming from NY, so sometimes when we weren't working I would just sit on those folding chairs.
Yes, I want to do good work. But just because a movie is small, it doesn't make it better. In fact, there are a lot of really horrible independent movies made.
Therapy was incredibly enlightening. I don't think it's only necessary if you're unwell - it's a useful tool for me to understand my own mind and how it works.
I get magnetically pulled towards a project because there's something in it that offers me the opportunity to explore the edge of my understanding about myself.
Being a mother has absolutely forced me. You have to write things down and have systems for all of it. And then you set up systems and you realize they don't work.
I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene.
So many people are willing to sleepwalk through things and fall into the not human, not interesting choice. To make the really interesting choice, you have to fight.
I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.
I don't even notice the advertisement that comes up on my screen. I'm a smart person and it's just something I've just blacked out because it doesn't seem right to me.
Some people would say you need what you need to work, but I need very little to work, because I learned how to make movies on tiny movies. It's all kind of easy for me.
After making 'Secretary,' it was a real shock to me to learn that some directors just aren't interested in what actors have to say. They just don't want to collaborate.