"I think we've told a lot of lies about human behavior through film." — Patricia Arquette

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.

In Hollywood, nobody knows how much everyone is making. It's all very hidden, and it's hard to change those things.

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.

I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.

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.

I find that men are far more vain than women.

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.

My dad was an alcoholic, growing up, so I knew how scary that was from a child's perspective - the volatility.

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I think we've told a lot of lies about human behavior through film.