I was a Stephen King fan and I was amazed that I got the chance to play that role and very glad that I did.

I'm a horror movie fan to begin with, so to come back to the genre, I feel like horror has been very good to me.

I'm very lucky to be able to do what I love to do, and I hope I can keep doing it for a while.

I was never an ingenue. I've always just been a character actor. When I was younger, it was a real problem, because I was never pretty enough. It was hard, not just for the lack of work, but because you have to face up to how people are looking at you.

Alexander Payne's very specific. His scripts are always complete when you start working on them.

The thing that I've run up against is that it's always been an either-or proposition, especially in Hollywood. You're either young and glamorous and you're going to get the lead and get the man at the end of the picture, or it's the opposite: you're a character actress, you're not attractive enough for the other role, and so you're playing the friend or the killer or the lesbian or the doctor or whatever.

I read Stephen King a lot and I've actually played two roles. Delores Claiborne is my favorite, I think, of any film that I've done.