"I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach."
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"The quality of life decreases with heightened security."
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"Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them."
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"In a way, after you're done directing there is a sense of amnesia that washes over you, you can't exactly remember how you did things. It's a zone, just like an athlete, when they can't remember what they did, but somehow got it done."
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"I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do."
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"I don't like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport."
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"Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly."
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"I was always very curious about other people. I would always stare and my mother would say - just please close your mouth!"
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"I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self."
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"When I left university I was sure that I was going to be a painter. Then I had a crisis, a revelation. I saw Dolce Vita and my mind was blown by it, by the synthesis. I realised I wanted to be a filmmaker and started making films. I was writing screenplays and couldn't get money because my work was so uncommercial. I got married and started writing fiction. What was wonderful is that it gave me my freedom because no-one can tell me I can't work. Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines."
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"One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another."
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"Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself."
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"In a way, a lot of my work is in the re-writing once it is cast, as I adapt to the rhythms of how the roles are played out by the actors."
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"We all have to embrace the idea not to be worried about there being other women in the room. Gay men work with such solidarity."
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"Looking at paintings was a huge part of finding my way into the lush world of the 18th century."
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"I was trained to look at colour, edges, to see negative space. I honestly think my greatest influence as a writer is from Cubism - the idea of a multi-faceted, multi-perspective way of looking at things."
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"That's one thing I find about having children - it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who've had children."
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"I would have started writing a lot earlier if I hadn't been [Arthur Miller's daughter]."
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"Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines."
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"I saw Dolce Vita and my mind was blown by it, by the synthesis. I realised I wanted to be a filmmaker and started making films. I was writing screenplays and couldn't get money because my work was so uncommercial."
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