When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!

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 was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough.

I think a lot of the time, the studio system is so compelled to kowtow to its fear that women are not going to be found sympathetic. It just sort of euthanizes any hope of more diverse examples of the emotional realities of people. Representing my gender, I think, "Well, I have those emotions, why don't those ever get brought to the screen so I can feel recognized?"

I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.

Every film is its own experience, its own planet, its own family. It seems infinite when you're working on it, and then it's suddenly very finite, and it's done.