I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.

I'm very happy I get to keep working - it's an insanely fortunate thing.

Literally, I see my writing as transcription - a transcription of what I see, hear, think, live.

As an actress, you're living something through the duration of the play and its geography. I've always seen writing the same way. It's like somehow I'm moving through the terrain of the book as a performer.

You never know who's going to kill you until you meet them.

I put a tremendous amount of pressure on myself. I felt like I shouldn't have to audition for anything and all that. And that energy did not serve me at all.

Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.