I find it safer to pursue the powerful, the ugly, the unpleasant.

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

Now if I go through it again, I think I would be a lot more open about it. I admire people who have been open like Melissa Ethridge and women I see walking around facing it without wigs and all of that stuff. I think I would be more courageous next time.

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'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.

We all love to hear a good story. We save our stories in books. We save our books in libraries. Libraries are the storyhouses full of all those stories and secrets.

The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.