Digital doesn't interest me. It's too many steps removed from the actual tactile thing. I still read books. I don't read online.

There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.

Once I started on 'Frances' I discovered it was literally a bottomless well. It devastated me to maintain that for eighteen weeks, to be immersed in this state of rage for twelve to eighteen hours a day. It spilled all over, into other areas of my life.

I like playing characters who are out there on the edge, where they can explode at any moment or fall off the precipice.

To work with a director that has emotional commitment and passion toward the characters, and the piece, and the experiences, it only enriches your work.

I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.