And it interferes with your ability to be a good actress if you're constantly aware of yourself as a person. To me, it isn't valuable to think about how I'm coming off all the time if I'm trying to create a character, because that's a process that I love. It's like falling in love and surrendering to another person or a character.

I think that you find your own way. You have your own rules. You have your own understanding of yourself, and that's what you're going to count on. In the end, it's what feels right to you. Not what your mother told you. Not what some actress told you. Not what anybody else told you but the still, small voice.

I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.

One must be brave if one is to take the wheel.

Everyone is interesting. Everyone has something unexpected to offer and the job of acting is to pull it out of each other.

The work will stand, no matter what.

I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.