I want to see women onscreen the way I see them in society.

I went from years of honing my craft to sudden recognition. It was quite a life changer.

I didn't go out on one date in high school. I played guitar and sang and wrote my own music and poetry and stuff when I was a teenager.

Because I'm a woman, because I'm a character actress, because I'm over 40, I'll be very interested to see, not just for me but for other actresses, how Hollywood treats us in the next ten, fifteen years. I'm hoping that it's not going to be so easy to shove people under the rug, as they have in the past.

For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.

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.

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