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

Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.

I think we're scared of intimacy - all of us, a little bit.

When you're reading Chekov, you're in this world that he's created. I never would have created that world. I don't know anything about that time period or that setting or those groups of people or what those experiences were, but oh my gosh, it's amazing to daydream on it and put yourself there.

I think we're always looking for an excuse to connect.

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.

The most intoxicating thing about being an actor is to surrender to a story that you never would have come up with.