David Michôd changed my life, quite literally, along with the chaps at Sony Pictures Classics. That's what set me on my way. I thought we did good work and had a good film, but when it was so praised at Sundance that year that's what really started the ball rolling. We all paid our own way to Sundance.

A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.

I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.

I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!

It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.

I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.

David Michôd changed my life, quite literally, along with the chaps at Sony Pictures Classics. That's what set me on my way. I thought we did good work and had a good film, but when it was so praised at Sundance that year that's what really started the ball rolling. We all paid our own way to Sundance.