You’re adored and you’re talented and the world is waiting to see the results of hard work for the last year

Jennifer Lawrence is just the coolest girl. Everyone forgets how young she is because she's so together, such an old soul. She just gets it. She's one savvy chick.

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.

Every role affects an actor a little bit. There's always a little chunk of a character that stays left over in your heart.

I don't think you can be a diver without a shark on the list.

As an actor, your text is your bible, so you're not making a documentary, but you still have to follow the choices made by your writer.

You don't want the men to be written in a three-dimensional way and the women, not.