A film’s success or failure is strictly on the director’s shoulders.

Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they’re happy.

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.

My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks.

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 haven’t really done a lot of comedies. I don’t know why, because I really like them.

I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It’s so much easier than being the good girl.

I’m from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.

I’m attracted to roles where I don’t have to wear makeup.

I’m a firm believer that actors take to work who they aren’t at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.

The Craft was what it was. People who respond to that movie respond to it really strongly.

Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters.

People do eventually see something that’s quality.

People work really hard to get to a certain point. But they have to work just as hard to stay there.

A film’s success or failure is strictly on the director’s shoulders.

In acting there’s two different things: You’re either pitching in a scene, or you’re catching.

I’ve quoted Lost in America several times.

I did a film about the Zodiac Killer. It turned out well.

I’ve been doing this long enough that you can tell when people have seen you in something they didn’t enjoy, and when they have seen you in something they actually enjoyed.

This Tourette’s center sent me a package that was like 900 hundred pages.

I usually play disenfranchised youth.

After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie.

I’m really proud to have been in The Craft. I will always be that chick from The Craft, no matter what I do.