Laura Dern

I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.

I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.

We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

Most of my work has no conventional narrative, so it's not essential to have a beginning and an end - your attention can flow in and out of the experience rather than having a set entry point.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.