Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.

Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.

You're perfectly balanced because then you effervesce seemingly effortlessly. And it's a thing a person can't manufacture. You either have that or you don't. You have charm or you don't.

I don't really talk about my process very much, because I feel like if I give something away, it might not come back.

Fear focuses the mind.

This act of empathy, that women go through from the time we're little girls - we read all of literature, all of history, it's really about boys, most of it. But I can feel more like Peter Pan than Tinker Bell, or like Wendy. I wanted to be Tom Sawyer, not Becky. And we're so used to that act of empathizing with the protagonist of a male-driven plot. I mean, that's what we've done all our lives. You read history, you read great literature, Shakespeare, it's all fellas, you know?