I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Sometimes I go too far one way or too far the other.

I don't feel that way now. I don't want to make movies for the 10 people who feel exactly the same way about the world that I do. I want to make movies that many, many people see, and I want to say something that I believe is important in a way that people who don't agree with me can hear. And that involves making different kinds of choices, but it's not like a compromise that I'm making. It's that something else interests me, something else is appealing to me.

Every actor has to find space where they are free, in order to do good work.

I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.

Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it.

You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.

I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.