The exercise in theater is night after night you are doing the same play, but you have another opportunity to explore. It changes nightly even because of the audience and your day going into the evening of the performance. With film it's much more controlled.

Being an actor is looked at like a prolonged game of dress-up. America puts movie stars on pedestals. In college, it's the flip side. I sometimes have to justify my job to my professors because they're focused on intellect and ideas.

I've always been fascinated with the idea of people paying for sex and what goes on with that and why that happens.

I took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.

The exercise in theater is night after night you are doing the same play, but you have another opportunity to explore. It changes nightly even because of the audience and your day going into the evening of the performance. With film it's much more controlled.

I worked regularly from very early on, and some of it was probably a bit premature.

Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself.