Being a theater actor, I've done a lot of plays where I've seen someone else play the same role in another production. Especially with the classics: Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams.

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.

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

Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant.

I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different.

It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.