"I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff."

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"I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff."

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"You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have."

Peace

"There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!"

Humor

"I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left."

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"There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work."

Love

"If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will."

Change

"I'm a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother's group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I'm a woman's woman. I never understood women who don't have woman friends."

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Mother

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