Even just reading "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore,"I got a sense of the world and the story [Macon Blair] wanted to tell. And then I had a meeting with him and understood how he likes to work. I really trusted him from the beginning.

Some scripts are pretty sparse.

I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script.

Even though it's still, annoyingly, something everybody feels the need to bring up to anybody who doesn't look like a model, there are more women now who are super successful and have different body types. You know, like men do. That feels like progress to me.

I know my mother-in-law would drive two hours to go see a movie that I'm in.

If I could be working every day, I would be.

I was a kid who didn't have a lot of self-esteem.