I did find my direction at an early age.

I was born with a fierce need for independence.

I learn a lot; what I learn cannot be expressed in words.

Because whatever I feel inside, it has a place to go. It just saves me over and over and over again.

I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs.

Even the simplest things, I'm guilty of making really bad decisions a lot of the time.

From Blue Valentine I kept my wedding ring. I actually kept it on for a while. After the shooting had stopped, I was still wearing it – I couldn’t quite take it off – and now I keep it above the kitchen sink where I do dishes, as a little memento.