I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.

I feel like everyone directs their own career according to their taste, what they migrate to emotionally and what kind of artists they want to work with.

Like, a lot of people I know are wanting to get back to the Earth in some way and not raise their kids in this world of Apps and Internet all the time. I grew up on a river in New Jersey and I was in fantasy land. I could do anything.

As an actress, there's a lot of waiting. You wait for a script to come in that you want to do. You get to a point where you decide that if you want good things to be made, you're going to have to start making them yourself as an actress. You can't just wait around for it. But you can also just enjoy the breaks, and use them to kind of refuel. I've been working so long at this point that I don't mind the breaks. I think they make me better, actually.

Lars von Trier is not not somebody who is known for conducting a normal press conference ever!

I love to produce, and I've directed two short films.

If I'd trusted myself and listened to myself all the times that I ignored myself, I would have been fine. But everyone has to learn their lesson, and now I've got it.