I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.

I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.

I didn't grow up really wanting to be an actor. I don't remember ever not being an actor.

I was raised with a single mom and we had a very specific, very particular relationship. She worked with me and my job. I was almost three and we traveled everywhere together and she was really in my life in a really profound way. The most significant relationship of my life. It was beautiful and also an incredible, difficult struggle. I know how creative that life is, and how difficult it is to figure it out.

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be very cultural, but it's not acceptable.

Definitely, there's a lot of trouble you come up against when you're acting and directing, about your performance. Sometimes it's hard to be objective about it. I will tend to get two takes and walk away. I don't belabor it, and it's important to me to have someone who says, "You know what? You should get another one, and maybe you should try it like that".

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.