Traits don't change, states of mind do.

I have to pay attention to what I have felt and observed, then push these responses to an extreme while keeping the story within the realm of being psychologically and emotionally true.

My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.

In case you haven't noticed, people get hard-hearted against the people they hurt. Because they can't stand it. Literally. To think we did that to someone. I did that. So we think of all the reasons why it's okay we did whatever we did.

I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element, and what we do as a society with it. I've always been touched by the idea of criminality.

Traits don't change, states of mind do.

I'm so interested in the fact that we really don't know anybody. We think we know the people close to us, but we don't, we really don't.