People equate success with youth. And if you haven't had a certain amount of success by a certain time in your life, it's never going to happen. There's a fear about that. So people start lying about their age really young. I've never done that because I think it's so insignificant.

I'm a typical middle child. I'm the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody's happy. It's hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy.

Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.

I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would be a bore.

I don't really watch my moves all that often; I mean, really, I don't.

I don't want to play the same person twice, that's not why I wanted to act.

I hate parties. I don't like big crowded things.

I just don't plan things. I live a month at a time.

I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in and not just casually observe.

I love being in therapy. It's just constantly fulfilling for me.

I love Polaroids and I have a Polaroid camera collection from the '50s.

I loved acting as a kid because I was kind of shy, so it brought me out of myself.

I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.

I'd love to have children, and I think marriage is great, I really do.

I've always done roles that really appealed to me on a gut level and which I found inspiring.

It's very exciting to work with people who inspire you.

One of the reasons that I do a lot of different kinds of pictures is because I learn a lot when I'm doing them.

When I find a role I want to play, I just go after it.

Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.

Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying. I've never been happier.