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Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship.

So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.

Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth.

I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.

When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!

Well, I didn't really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn't pull up and leave when I felt like it.

Diane Lane