The human condition is all about us pretending to be something sometimes that we're not. When you get into the core of people kind of stripping all of that away, that's for me, as an actor, always the most fun stuff to do.

You choose the life you want for yourself, and then you just shut up and go about it. That's how I've lived my life.

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I don't want to be anything other than what we are. I want to just be a woman.

Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.

My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.

I treat my relationships like marriages. The ceremony isn't that important to me.

It took a while for me to be able to sit in a room of studios and financiers and say, "I'm not some hoity-toity actress looking for a vanity deal - I really know how to make a film!" In order to do that, you've got to break your f-cking back.