Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical.
I do believe there's good in all of us, even if it's layered over so thickly.
I see my job as an actor to be as good a channel as I can be. Acting is a gift, and I have respect for it.
I tried to do the commercial thing. But I don't want to keep shoving Twinkies down everyone's throat. People are hungry for something of more substance.
If someone puts up $100 million on a movie, they're gonna be concerned about whether they'll get it back. So they're not gonna make a movie about three girls, you know?
It's been very important for me to follow my gut or my heart, or whichever organ you want to go by.
The weird thing about this business - and I'm sure this operates in many other things, but it's very present and acute in this business - is that a lot of people don't realize that they have power. Particularly actors.
When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up.
When you get into that kind of studio money, there's a price on everything. And I haven't been willing to pay that price.
Lily has a black pug dog named Gulliver which she found in the middle of the road.
She is active in the 52nd Street Project giving inner city kids a chance to experience theater first hand.
Lili considers herself a non-radical feminist.
Lili's father describes her first acting experience as a 6th grade production of "Once Upon a Mattress".
Lili has five siblings whom she grew up with in a big house.
Michael Rapaport pleaded guilty to harassment of her. He had to stay away from her and undergo counseling for one year.
Lili's a good friend of David Duchovny whom she worked with in the movie 'The Secret'.
Lili's brother in law is the famous New York casting director Daniel Swee.
Lili graduated from New Trier High School, same school as Rock Hudson and Ann-Margret.
Lili is 5'5".
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