I don't think people should do things that they're not comfortable with, unless they want to stretch themselves in that way and challenge themselves.

Theres plenty of great independent films to do, but you cant support yourself making independent film as an actress.

It wasn't until I was in college that I even realized how much I loved film and started to appreciate acting, this beautiful medium of artistic expression. All I wanted to do was go to college, and I thought I wanted to be a teacher.

I got to college in '99, and I went to study literature and writing, and so within a couple years we had Bush elected, 9/11, we were at war, so I was sort of having my political and spiritual awakening at the same time I was becoming an adult, and that's a lot of stuff at once. I became very focused on the state of the world, and I started studying that stuff more, and I just had a real identity crisis. I couldn't even really just study literature.

I did act as a kid, but I quit when I was seventeen.

When people are struggling, thats a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.

I got into cooking and I went and cooked in Italy. I became a doula for a while. I built stone walls one summer, and I read a lot, and I swam a lot, and I spent a lot of time thinking.