We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.

I think that in a general sense, the idea of getting comfortable with the truth in life is uncomfortable.

For me, as an actress, one of the most essential things that I need to know is what do I want for and from the people around me in the story.

Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performance.

We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.

That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal. She figures his is a well-thought-out motivation that she felt was worthy trade-off. The motivation here is survival, and she has to think like a leader.

It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I need to be interested in the whole thing. I'm not there to be on my own. And if I'm going to be with these people, I'd best be interested in their work.