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.

My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics. I'm not one of those people who can just spout off numbers for things, if numbers are thrown at me.

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

I think I am looking as an actor to find ways to push myself into places I haven't been before as a human being.

Maybe the best definition of what a great partnership or great love is when people make each other grow in a better direction than they would have grown on their own.

That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.

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.