The more time you invest in something, potentially, the deeper the emotional impact of the climax. It's true of relationships, too.

One of the things that's awesome about being an actor is that you get to do stories, live lives and have experiences that you never could have even conceived of, and that's because you're living in another writer's imagination and another director's imagination.

So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.

Having spent a lot of time trying to figure out screenwriting, I do feel moved and I want to try to write good roles for women of every age.

It doesn't happen all the time, but in the moments where you really lose yourself and you fall into this character, it's like time travel.

I think the first thing I thought when I got out to L.A. was just: Oh, if I want to act, I have to find a different way to go about it because the parts for girls are as dispiriting as the banking jobs. You have to really be willing to invent, I guess, a different path for yourself.

I feel like developing the muscle of my imagination became a way to survive reality.