Some of the most successful, talented actresses of our generation, be it Julianne Moore, or Charlize Theron, or Charlotte Gainsbourg, or Isabella Rossellini, if you know your cinema history, have taken their clothes off. There's nothing wrong with nudity, per se, if it's part of the storytelling and it's eloquent and it says something about the raw humanity of the story.

I meditate but not regularly. I wish I did more meditation. It's always my New Year's resolution to do more.

I've been a member of some good gyms in the past. I love a good spinning class; I love a good aerobics class.

It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing.

I started writing it, because it was seven years ago. But yes, that is the genesis of why I started writing.

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

All the pins stuck in my head from the wig. I would set off a metal detector. And you know when your head gets really itchy? So when the wig gets put on at like 5:30, 6 A.M., and you can't take it off until 7 P.M. - I won't miss all the pins scratching against my scalp.