When you recognize what your talents are, a happy life is developing them to the greatest extent you can.

I do like to work with young directors because it's such a difficult business that I think after directors have been around a while sometimes, not always, but sometimes their passion gets siphoned off because they get hurt.

She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.

It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality.

I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice.

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

Everything gets old if you do it often enough.