When I felt like I was looking down the barrel of nothing on the horizon it was hard for me.

I like acting and things when I like the writing. If I don't like the writing, I don't like acting. I think in some ways everything starts for me from the place of writing.

I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.

I was a ballet dancer. I did other kinds of dance but ballet was my great love. But then it became clear, when I was 12, that my body wasn't going to be right. That's always a heartbreaking moment because there's nothing you can do about that. Your body is just not right. You don't have enough turnout. You're not built properly.

I don't do well when I don't work.

I’m not saying that everyone needs to be celibate, but you don’t need a romance to complete a story about a woman

I think I'm pretty committed to staying. I'm not committed to not doing big movies, but I am committed to continuing to make smaller movies, not for the sake of making smaller movies, but because I think it's really invigorating to just go work with people and know that it might be awful.