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.

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

Mainstream Hollywood makes a few good movies a year. And in order to be in one of those, you have to be one of five people. Hollywood makes many bad movies too, which I'm not interested in being a part of. But there are only a few good independent movies a year, and many, many bad ones. I want to be in good movies, and I want people to see them.

You're invited to tons of parties, and you'll wear these shoes and that dress, and it can be enticing, but I think it also sucks you dry. If you do it a little, sure, it's fun, but too much and you start to lose your footing.

I was thinking about how people were upset about the information that came out from Snowden about the NSA - many people were upset, including myself. But I was kind of surprised by how little we did about it - how little fighting we did.

Sometimes things go really well, and sometimes they don't, and it's not ultimately the most important thing.

I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.