"It's hard to negotiate the present landscape with a brain and a female body."
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"You didn't have to work to keep your fear up, your energy up, or your anxiety. It is all kind of built into the process."
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"Women are the last group anyone cares about in Hollywood."
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"You're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but Earl Blackwell finally died, and I was on his blacklist every year for being the worst dressed person."
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"It's sort of my fun to sing along with records and imitate people who are on the telephone that have different ways of speaking."
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"I get nervous the more time I have to think about something so I deliberately don't give myself too much time between jobs. I take a big break and then I start working again usually."
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"The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is."
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"I feel very strongly that we make decisions about what we're giving to the world, what we're withholding from the world, by virtue of what we put on our bodies."
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"The idea that people do very bad things for sometimes very good reasons, feels reasons."
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"I've grown up well, partly because there weren't great girls' literature - Nancy Drew, maybe - but there weren't things. So there was Huck Finn and "Spin And Marty." The boys characters were interesting and you lived through them when you're watching it."
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"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."
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"Well, I got better after this, and my entire family really did appreciate it. Usually, they're resentful of movies that I go off and make, but this one had a bonus attached. But yeah, she had no breath."
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"The first thing [in career and motherhood] is a great husband. That I found many years ago and I am lucky in that way."
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"When my children were very young and I was working I had someone cooking for me. I don't have a cook now, I haven't had one for a number of years and I do it myself. But when they were all little it was hard to pay attention to everyone's homework at the end of the day and make dinner."
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"I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts."
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"You know, you're not aware of it, but you're following the action of the film through the body of the protagonist, you know? You feel what he feels when he jumps, when he leaps, when he wins, when he loses. And I think I just took it for granted that, you know, we can all do that, but it became obvious to me that men don't live through the female characters."
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"I had a number of great teachers and the ones that really were the strongest influences on me were women. They were really, really smart and interesting women."
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"If you raise children, you forget what age they are. I mean you don't literally forget, but you treat a 13-year-old like she's 10 and there's a big difference in those three years and they can't stand it. They want to be treated like they're 17 when they're 13. And sometimes you can't help thinking of them as if they were 10 or 10 months old because it's all so recent. So we do overprotect sometimes."
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"Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done."
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"I don't have a favorite director just like I don't have a favorite color or I don't have a favorite food. I like everything."
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