Laura is a free spirit. She's also a great student and a dedicated artist – and there aren't very many people I call artists. But the entire cast of this film, they're all true artists, dedicated to their own inner truth, and they have the courage to share that. You don't find that very often.

As quoted in "Laura Dern: a Hollywood old-timer at 37" by John Anderson, in The Baltimore Sun (August 23, 2004)