I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.

Once you've found something you know how to do, it makes you feel you don't have to be intimidated by someone.

The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.

There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment.

[My choice about scripts] is just a question of what I fall in love with. You have to use some kind of instinct meter about it. I think I'm getting closer to my instincts now. I don't think there needs to be a plan. I think there needs to be love. I think you need to love what you're doing and then the rest is anybody's guess.

When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.

It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good life is, the world of supermodels and Bud ads.