What I like about acting is that you have to be super, super present in the moment. That's not something that comes to me naturally. But if you take the long view on anything, nothing can really affect you or knock you down. It's like, we're here for a blink, we're just the human experiment, one of many experiments going on in the universe, and it's interesting, it's beautiful by fits and starts, but I can't take it that personally. I'm just one of billions of people attempting.

I think one thing for sure that you learn the more films that you make is how important it is to choose your collaborators.

A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.

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

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

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

The problem is if you play enough of parts in films that are sort of more financial products than anything or films in which the girl is a thankless, thoughtless, underwritten character along the way, you're no longer the person who had something fresh or vital to offer. I think it really does start to diminish some part of you, to put yourself through things you don't really want to be doing.