A script is a very rough material in a way. Whatever questions you might have regarding the script, you might find the beginning of the answers in the book.

By definition, acting is improvisation, even if you follow the lines. You invent what you do, when you do it.

I think that a sense of humor of an actor comes through most of the time. Maybe some actors have less than others, and I have it, I think. It's my nature.

When you're an actress you are in a very specific position, cerebrally, I would think you know. You are a thinking person but you are in a certain perception of the world between really being conceptual and completely stupid. So you are in between, with a lot of intuition and instinct. And that's not completely being intellectual because I think intuition is more blurred. It comes from intuition. Instinct. More than really reasoning.

When you come to do the film, it is not the time to wonder why you do it. It's just how to do it

When I hear myself, I don't know how I sound.

I saw Chekhov a number of times in English, and I thought that it translates very well in English, for some reason, from the Russian to the English.