I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.
Decision-making is very scary for me.
Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got.
With 'Mask,' 'Smooth Talk' and 'Blue Velvet,' I loved the specific experiences so much. Each one was a specific filmmaker with a specific vision.
The bad news is, I have worked less than I have liked. The good news is, I can look back on my body of work and feel truly proud of the work I have done.
It's one thing to have forced time off as an actor, and another thing when you actually say, 'I don't want to read anything, and I don't want to talk to anybody.'
Everything's cyclical. Having been raised by actors, I watched their careers, and the challenge is to take time off.
At the end of the day, you have to sit with the scripts and decide where your heart is.
My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric.
If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun.
For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.
I was raised by two actors in a moment in time - the Seventies - when there was no judgment of characters, no heroes and bad guys.
Having egregious divorces - where you just hate each other - is really the easy way out.
Every role is a new form of surrender.
God bless nannies.
As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time.
I was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement.
Any journey of a creative person has, you know, really unusual challenges and years where you don't work and years where you work.
In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.
I've worked with David Lynch since I was 17, and working with him is home and family; being around Alexander Payne is home and family, Jonathan Demme. There are directors... Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson... They are directors where I create homes.
