As an actor, you hope to obtain this mind meld and sometimes I feel like I'm chasing a horse holding on to its tail and getting dragged, and other times I feel much more velcroed into the saddle. And I'm not the knower of which is better or best as a process, it's just as random as the weather in terms of what my subjective experience is.

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

So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.

I try not to be overly analytical.

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?"