I felt really great about the decision because I never felt complete with Laura. I never got to be Laura alive, just in flashbacks, so it allowed me to come full circle with the character. Laura always had a tremendous amount of life, because everybody talked about her, yet I didn`t get to do those things and be her. - On being able to play Laura Palmer in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.
I have had many people, victims of incest, approach me since the film (Twin Peaks - Fire Walk With Me) was released, so glad that it had been made because it helped them to release a lot. And so for me, it doesn`t matter what the critics say - if one person walks away having released something, then it`s worth seeing. - on playing Laura Palmer in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
About working with David Lynch in "Twin Peaks" (1990) and Wild at Heart (1990) - I`ve been wrapped in plastic on a beach, I`ve imitated a bird (Waldo), I`ve come back as my lookalike cousin, and for Wild at Heart (1990) I hung 60 feet above the ground by piano wire to play a good witch who floats down the sky.