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“I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.”
“Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.”
“I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.”
“Every movie changes you. The process of making a film changes you.”
“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.”
“So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.”
“I think every movie changes me and is life changing, especially movies you direct.”
“My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant.”
“I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.”
“I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young.”
“Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.”
“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.”
“Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.”
“Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.”
“I do almost all my movies in French. I dub them.”
“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.”
“I had to take my makeup off at work every night. I wasn't allowed to do it at home because my mom said that when your work day is done, you're done with work.”
“I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about perceptiveness, and they were about examining psychology and examining people and relationships.”
“I just want to make movies. I really love movies. I want to be involved with them.”
“I wish people could get over the hang-up of subtitles, although at the same time, you know, that's kind of why I'm kind of pro dubbing.”