120 Quotes by Patricia Arquette

I think everybody wants love, and everybody wants to feel alive.

Some people will stop a scene and demand a mirror and look at themselves and check which angles they're being photographed from. I don't do that.

We all go through life living in little bubbles, which we share with people who think pretty much the same as us.

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 confrontational.

I don't think I would have had much of a career if I didn't have my son.

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 love small weird art movies, and I love free mass entertainment.

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.

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 used to just be called the movies. Now it should be the business movies.