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

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 think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical.

I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.

The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If Im afraid of it, then I want to do it.

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

People go to the cinema to be moved; they wanna laugh, they wanna cry, they wanna feel something deeply, especially if they're not feeling deeply in their own lives.