I like to investigate all different kinds of people, I guess, and find out what makes them who they are, and try to be honest in the portrayal, and truthful, and find out how to understand that person, how to communicate that person's experience.

I don't really watch my moves all that often; I mean, really, I don't.

One of the reasons that I do a lot of different kinds of pictures is because I learn a lot when I'm doing them.

I've never done anything that I felt was crossing the line for me. But everybody has to make that decision individually. Like, I've never shot heroin to play a heroin addict. I've never turned a trick to play a prostitute. Whatever. You draw the line where you feel it could be harmful.

There's so much confidence and freedom that comes from that way of doing things. Robert Altman and Alan Rudolph make the set the place to be. It's fun. It's a kind of creative freedom that's really inspiring. Altman loved actors so much. He was a great mentor for me, really.

It usually takes about two and a half weeks after you're done filming where you kind of return to yourself again.

I don't need a reason to kill myself-I need a reason not to.