Children accept their world as the world. I grew up like kids that I went to school with. Their parents were either shrinks or actors.

I love Polaroids and I have a Polaroid camera collection from the '50s.

People equate success with youth. And if you haven't had a certain amount of success by a certain time in your life, it's never going to happen. There's a fear about that. So people start lying about their age really young. I've never done that because I think it's so insignificant.

I think Robert Altman could see things in me that I didn't know I possessed, which is really exciting. He also instilled a tremendous amount of confidence, because he would say things like, "These are the bare bones, but I want you to go fill it out. You find the character. You bring it to me. You write whatever you want." And if you had an idea, he wouldn't want to hear about it. He's want you to show it to him.

I just don't plan things. I live a month at a time.

I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.

Even if the role is very far away from me, to try and make it as nakedly me as possible is an intriguing notion.