I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play.

Sex, sexual dynamics and how we define our sexuality, is one of the major deals in everyone's life.

I'm probably an actor that tends to, instead of putting things on, think about it more in terms of taking away what's not in the character, until I'm left with what is. If that makes sense. That's probably a particularly American way of working, but maybe not. The end of any movie is a readjustment.

Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything.

I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play.

The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.

I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.