As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch, and it's so easy to just have a great writer write you a line.

Hey, I'm a girl, and we like to play dress-up.

I want to be in a good movie, and so the narrative is way more important.

I tend to ... if I decide to do a job, want to be able to trust my director...

I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message.

I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.

Fran McDormand was great because she said, 'What I used to do when I worked with him was I would just walk on the set and I would give him a big hug. Somehow his guard would just drop.' So I took that advice.