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.

As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.

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.

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

I think it's damaging to know too much about a person, about an actor.

I still don't look like what I think I look like.