There was something about her playing... a knowledge of darkness in the most extreme form.
I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope.
I am not a bloody ghoda running a race that you give me a tag. I am competitive, and the reason for that is that I want to do the best films.
I've always found as an actress that the best thing to do in film or TV or theater is just to lose yourself in it. Think of the story, the character, the worlds we're in, and forget everything else.
Many of the best films made about war have come out after the wars have ended. People need a period of time to reflect on them.
I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and they look forward all the time.
In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film.
There's no audience to wonderfully get in your way when you're doing a single-camera anything, whether it's a sitcom or drama or film. And I do mean that in the best way.
'Phantom' follows some of the best submarine cold-war films made. There's just so much tension, I can't even describe it - you have to see it.
My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.
My best actress of all time is Kate Winslet. I want to be just like her. 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' is one of my favourite films.
And even Moonstruck - for some reason the audience were just in the mood for a very romantic film, because it's one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
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.
'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible.
You have to make enough noise to be cast in the right films, and the best way to make that noise is to do lots of good work.
When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.
A lot of my friends aren't working, especially since fewer films are being made now and there's more competition.
A lot of the films I do go down brilliantly critically and win awards, but not a lot of people see them.
I don't know that a political climate - as long as it's still a free country - makes much difference in the film world.
Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.
I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth.
