Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.

I feel like I'm really lucky.

I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.

It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.

I feel like I've done a bunch of period stuff and then a bunch of romantic comedies.

On her daughter's pet rabbit: I don't think he liked being in a cage and wouldn't stop masturbating and humping his bowl.

I think you approach a part the same way and just find out in what's making them tick and who they are. In a movie like this you may have a little less time and few dialogue scenes and exposition scenes for your character to really get that across, and so I wanted to be able to convey that she's not somebody who's just punching a clock but she has this weird emotional investment in her job to where she does get quite myopic and that's what makes her relentless.