I am, 'Guardian' readers keep telling me, a xenophobe. Never mind that I speak French and Spanish, that I love Europe, that I've lived a high proportion of my life abroad. The fact that I oppose the political amalgamation of the European Union's states is ipso facto proof that I dislike foreigners.
It's almost like my life is a fairytale.
There was a time when I wasn't working a lot. It ebbs and flows. Mostly I was just living my life and playing 'Fallout 3,' a very fun game.
I can look back on my life, where there have been moments where things might have gone the other way. Everything is like stepping stones, and I've seen people I admire falter. We're all vulnerable.
I have spent my life reassembling the family farm.
This is my life. I don't need a piece of paper to make it a family unit.
My parenting heroes are the Obamas! They've been married for so long, and it looks like they're having fun, and their kids are down to earth, well-adjusted, and smart. They seem to have a strong family unit that I would like to emulate in my life.
I will only do family-friendly films or television. They don't have to necessarily be Christian films, but I want to be in things that I'm comfortable having my children and husband watch. They come first in my life, not the film industry.
Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.
I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.
I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
When Fargo came out, I hired a publicist for the first time in my life. I thought, if ever I was going to make it, that was then.
'Stans' can not see anything wrong with their favorite artist. They love everything they do. If the artist fart, they're like, 'OMG, that was the best-sounding fart I ever heard in my life. She farted on beat,' whatever. I'm an 'objective fan,' so I can give my opinion about things.
I have not had any of that surgical stuff. I am too curious to find out exactly how I progress every day of my life naturally. That is what fascinates me.
I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles.
I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.
Fatherhood is a very natural thing; it's not something that shakes up my life but rather it enriches it.
Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me.
When I was younger, people were inventing a new way of writing - James Joyce, Hemingway, Faulkner. And I thought we had to find a structure for cinema. I fought for a radical cinema, and I continued all my life.
My favorite dark comedy, which is also one of my favorite films of all time, is 'After Hours.' I've seen 'After Hours' as much as almost any film I've ever seen in my life; I've watched it dozens of times, and I still watch it once a year. I still get a thrill out of it every time I see it.
