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 seems to be this hot-bed for these ideas and bringing these groups together. You find that the one thing that everybody has in common, whether they're a teenager who has run away from his parents, or a divorcee who lost her husband, is that they all have in common this feeling of searching for a meaning in their lives.

I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.

But, it has something to do with having belief in a human future and what that human future is. What is the future of humanity? How does this whole experiment not self-destruct with the environment and everything else going on?

If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.

I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives.

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