I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.

I don't know why people think child actresses in particular are screwed up. I see kids everywhere who are totally bored. I've never been bored a day in my life.

I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older.

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.

All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.