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.

You have to discipline yourself and not carry the character with you. You need to switch it off and take time to re-energize.

I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films.

Oh my God I am so cool.

And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love.

I'd love to get pajamas. Good, nice and warm flannel ones.

I met a woman in Albuquerque and she came and hung out with me in the trailer. It was really just more to kind of really understand my biggest concern was always the interrogation scenes. Remember, that's why I really wanted to meet somebody because you see those scenes on TV so much.