I do feel that if it's not on the page, there's no hope of it getting to the stage. You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or what have you. Sometimes there's this real naïveté that people possess, where they want you to infuse a scene with a certain quality, and it's like an apology. "I read the script, didn't you? What's the agenda here?"

My roles are in some way like children to me. You don't ever really want to scrape one off your shoe.

Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging.

But I do love horses. They are such an expression of joy.

When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.

I try not to be overly analytical.

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.