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I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.

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I like to be in a different place when I make a movie so that I can't really focus on anything else, and that is your world.

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My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.

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The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.

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As I've said before, and I still hold to, I truly am the most boring person alive. And if there was a great investigation to be found at the end of the resume, it would be, the most boring person alive.

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Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.

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My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I'm always on time - or early.

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In a weird way, that's the beauty of being an actor. You get to live out things that you're afraid of, and you get to say, 'Well, maybe I can get to the end of it and survive it intact and I can be the hero of my own story.' It's kind of a way of exorcising fear.

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I will always love psychology, and the basis of psychology is family.

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I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.

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Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.

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I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

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I don't know why people think child actresses in particular are screwed up. I see kids everywhere who are totally bored. I've never been bored a day in my life.

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I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

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Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

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I never know what's going to move me. I'm always surprised. And it's always a mystery to the people who work with me.

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I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.

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With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.

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Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles.

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I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

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