Patricia Arquette

“I'm a person who takes baths in the dark, alone.”

“We never thought 'Boyhood' was ever gonna become Oscar-considered. Our shooting budget was $2.8m for 12 years. Altogether. I didn't know if anyone would see it or appreciate it.”

“Frankly, there is no shorter shelf life other than that of a child actor, than that of the ingenue.”

“I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.”

“For some people, when you walk into a room, what your fame means to them can be like pointing a weird gun at them. It triggers something. They might get really giggly or flirty or cold or co...”

“Financiers don't support their directors to cast properly. They don't have the vision of an artist. They're casting to spreadsheets, and it's making movies very mediocre. The movie business...”

“Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.”

“When I was tiny, I was a real observer of human behaviour, and I knew I wanted to tell the human story, but I felt shy and unattractive and awkward.”

“This idea of the world expecting you to remain an ingenue forever - it's a very short shelf life if you're going to commit to that as your career, and I knew that early.”

“I need space to grow and get old and be a human being. I don't want to be trapped in your ingenue bubble. And I don't agree with it either, by the way.”

“If we don't allow people to vote in America, what is our democracy? It's a sham.”

“Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he's the person I want to strain with.”

“Everyone should help women. Everyone has a vested interest.”

“My dad was an alcoholic, growing up, so I knew how scary that was from a child's perspective - the volatility.”