There are so many filmmakers who are so talented, and actors and writers who work so hard, and it's really hard to let your work enter the world.

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

I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.

When you come out to L.A. to make movies or to do this kind of work, everybody is coming out on their own and you leave your tribe behind. Then, it's a question of, that was your tribe by blood, and now, what is the tribe that you're making by choice or by what you think is important? I think we were having that experience, so somehow the cult world seemed really compelling.

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 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.