I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.

I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like.

I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.

There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.

But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.

I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.

Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.

As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something.

Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I've just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable.

Chris Guest has his own form. It's a way of working that is really intense, and you can commit a lot, and you focus a lot. You get to bring a lot. You get to bring things maybe you haven't seen before. You're asked to care a great deal for these people who you're playing and create heart and empathy.

Every time I do something, I worry it's my last job.

Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.

Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.

Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.'

How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important.

I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.

I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.

I find myself listening to Talk Talk on repeat while I'm doing gardening in upstate New York. Their music is so languid, and I just love his voice.

I got into the whole Ayurvedic thing. It was really cool.

I had dreams of conehead aliens when I was little. Before 'Saturday Night Live' did it. And then they came out with them, and I went on to be a glorified extra in the movie. When everyone else was laughing, I was scared.

I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s.

I have a twin brother, so I was around guys like a sister. It was comfortable to me.

I just want to balance myself holistically and see what different foods do what to me.

I learned how to play mandolin for 'A Mighty Wind!'

I like 'MacNeil/Lehrer.'

I like bears. I like bear people. I like bear-type men.

I like finding things in locations where I've worked and things from down South and things from flea markets or even the sidewalks.

I like sitting close to windows.

I like to support local record stores.

I like trying different foods. I've done vegetarian stuff, and I've gone through meat phases, and then I do no bread, and then I eat bread. I'm really all over the place in the way a lot of actors are.

I love 'Fishing With John' so much.

I love bayou life.

I love playing a woman suffering, thinking about the choices that she's made and obviously wanting more. It's classic.

I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy.

I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.

I really liked playing a vampire. Their hunger is insatiable. Even when they eat someone, it's never enough.

I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was 'Party Girl' or 'House of Yes.' But now with the digital camera, the budgets have gotten smaller, and the days have gotten shorter.

I usually play character parts in Hollywood films.

I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious.

I was reading this book called 'Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind.' It's really, really good if you want to believe in that stuff.

I wonder if people who see 'Blade' will have even seen my other movies. But I don't want all my movies to be in a vacuum. I need a balance because one pays, and the other doesn't.

I work with directors who haven't had the experience of being on sets as much as I have. I feel like, in a way, if it's an independent movie, I can teach the crew to kind of relax, or create a vibe. It really is about a vibe.

I would love to do something like 'Fishing With John.'

I'm a good girl, you know? But I'm from the South, and there are some powerful women down there, and very theatrical.

I'm an actor, so I like costumes.

I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.

I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.

I've seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes.

Imagine if every airport would blast Brian Eno. I bet going through security wouldn't be as difficult. I can't imagine someone being aggressive with me with Brian Eno music pumping through the terminals at LAX.