I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

It's a skill that people are born with. Either you're a focuser or you're a multitasky person. I am a full-focus person.

I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.

I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young.

Ninety-five percent of women's experiences are about being a victim. Or about being an underdog, or having to survive... women didn't go to Vietnam and blow things up. They are not Rambo.

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

I didn't work very much when they were young, and I had the luxury to be able to do that. Most people can't.