Every single lesbian and transgender woman is a woman.
Patricia Arquette
I don't think I would have had much of a career if I didn't have my son.
Some people will stop a scene and demand a mirror and look at themselves and check which angles they're being photographed from. I don't do that.
Frankly, there is no shorter shelf life other than that of a child actor, than that of the ingenue.
If we don't allow people to vote in America, what is our democracy? It's a sham.
I need space to grow and get old and be a human being. I don't want to be trapped in your ingenue bubble. And I don't agree with it either, by the way.
Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.
I'm a person who takes baths in the dark, alone.
When I was tiny, I was a real observer of human behaviour, and I knew I wanted to tell the human story, but I felt shy and unattractive and awkward.
This idea of the world expecting you to remain an ingenue forever - it's a very short shelf life if you're going to commit to that as your career, and I knew that early.
I didn't think of myself as beautiful, but, in retrospect, I guess I was.
I think we've told a lot of lies about human behavior through film.
We all have our own little thing, I think.
I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.
I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They kind of keep each other honest, and they enjoy each other's sense of humor. Kind of a sexy but boring relationship.
Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he's the person I want to strain with.
I find that men are far more vain than women.
You want your partner to objectify you.
I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.
We all go through life living in little bubbles, which we share with people who think pretty much the same as us.
For some people, when you walk into a room, what your fame means to them can be like pointing a weird gun at them. It triggers something. They might get really giggly or flirty or cold or confrontational.
I love small weird art movies, and I love free mass entertainment.
We never thought 'Boyhood' was ever gonna become Oscar-considered. Our shooting budget was $2.8m for 12 years. Altogether. I didn't know if anyone would see it or appreciate it.
Financiers don't support their directors to cast properly. They don't have the vision of an artist. They're casting to spreadsheets, and it's making movies very mediocre. The movie business used to just be called the movies. Now it should be the business movies.
There really is a lot of pressure on actresses to look a strange and unrealistic way. You're not supposed to age. You're supposed to be perpetually incredibly attractive because that's the way the movie world is.
My dad was an alcoholic, growing up, so I knew how scary that was from a child's perspective - the volatility.
I've crafted a really weird career for myself.
I didn't want to be looked at. I remember when I was six or seven asking my mom why people were looking at me. She said, 'They're looking at you because you're a beautiful little girl.' But I didn't believe her. And yet I put myself in a business where people have to look at you. I think I learnt to block it out.
Everyone should help women. Everyone has a vested interest.
I think everybody wants love, and everybody wants to feel alive.
I feel like I'm getting the best parts of my career in my 50s.
In Hollywood, nobody knows how much everyone is making. It's all very hidden, and it's hard to change those things.
I know I've been really blessed in my life.
