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

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.

A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.

For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro.

Being a waitress can be a very brutal job sometimes, and I remember during the training, the person said to me, "The redder the lips, the better the tips," and that was like the only advice she gave me.

I couldn't be a novelist for instance. It feels like a very lonely endeavor. I don't know that I could survive the solitude of that.

So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.