For me, my storyline [in Big Little Lies] is very complicated and nuanced. [The script] was so beautifully written. It was very, very easy to play. ... I think one of the scenes is almost eight minutes.

I'm not drawn to stories that are just sort of fluffy. I'm just not, and I've tried to, and as a kid I was never drawn to them. I always chose complicated.

People say that jealousy is the greatest enemy of love. They’re wrong. The greatest enemy of love is boredom.

I think love is the core emotion. Without that, and I've certainly existed without that, it's a very empty life.

You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.

An actor who's a control freak, that doesn't work. We have to be malleable. We cannot come in and try to control or dominate.

I credit literature for the reason I act because that was the door to me saying, ‘Oh! I can be somebody else. I can exist as someone else.’