Life's hard. It's supposed to be. If we didn't suffer, we'd never learn anything.

The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band.

I meet a lot of young people that want to go into acting because they think of what it will do for them. If that's the case, it can be a very, very painful profession. But if the kids want to do acting because they love it, and they want to give to it, then they can have a great life. It's really about as simple as how you look at it.

Have this Chet Baker movie coming out and in that situation, I went down the rabbit hole studying Chet Baker and being obsessed with the period and the music and the relationships and the dynamic, and everything, drug addiction. There was so much I wanted to get at to kind of get at the truth. With Regression, I was certainly in Alejandro's [Amenabar] hands.

My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality.

Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.

I love working on scripts. I love coming up with ideas about what people would dress like or talk like. I love all that.