I did do a presentation pilot with Jesse Eisenberg and he's wonderful. He's such a great writer. He directed me and he wrote these wonderful scripts and we're waiting to hear if marketers and advertisers think that an audience wants to look at a bad mom and her 10-year-old son in a show.

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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

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leaving levels men

I don't, really a fashionable person. I'm an actor, so I like costumes. But fashion is very popular now. Really overly popular. It's like New Age music in the '80s, or art. And then independent film. Now everyone's a fashion designer. It's had a big effect in New York, in our culture.

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independent fashion art

I don't have a publisher yet, so I'm not in the process of that next stage and I don't know what that's going to look like. So I feel like I finished stage one [with my book].

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next book looks

People are like, 'Was it fun? Did you eat lots of cake?'

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cake fun people

In the '90s, indie movies could get financing, because financers gave money straight to directors... Now it's a different system. Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system.

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indie-movie different directors

An actor's career relies on a lot of luck. Being in the right place at the right time.

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actors careers luck

I would like a nice, powerful, mind-altering substance. Preferably one that will make my unborn children grow gills.

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nice powerful children

You're making a fantasy. You're making something real out of a fantasy. And then it no longer exists. It's heartbreaking to leave behind. I was devastated after Waiting for Guffman. I had never gotten so close to people I've worked with.

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real waiting people

Black eyeliner says 'You've been through stuff, you know things'.

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eyeliner black stuff

My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994.

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roles party girl

My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.

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grandmother stars attitude

With Dazed and Confused I got the high school experience I didn't get to have. So you do create families and homes. You're projecting and it's your job. The amount of time and headspace and thought it takes on your psyche is huge. It's exhausting, yeah. And it's exhausting but it's also great.

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confused home jobs

I usually play character parts in Hollywood films.

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hollywood-films play character

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

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should sometimes thinking

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

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studios trying

I don't want to sound like too much of a drama queen! But I'm not going to tell you, 'Oh, it's just so much fun.' It's work [working on film].

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queens fun drama

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

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guy girl character

I'm having too good of a time.

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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

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acting done school

I'm a grown-up and I'm a creative person so I should try to give something to that and see what I can make with that. And not sit around listening to people be like, 'You really should be on an HBO show. You'd be great on an Amazon series.' You're like, 'Thank you, okay. I don't have any offers.'

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hbo giving people