To appreciate the success you have to have had the failures. You have to accept that it is a journey and its not just tomorrow or the next day or next year.

I want to be with people I really like. I don't want to be working on things with people that I'm not happy to be there [with].

I suppose the underlying current for me is the idea of not doing something I've done before. I call myself a character actor and I'm always trying to stay a character actor.

I’m always interested in films that are about extreme subject matters.

I never like to tell people what they should take.

In particular, for my character, Celeste [in Big Little Lies], there was a way in which we wanted to present her, because she has sort of barriers that she has to put up for protection because of things that are going on in her life. Yet she wants to be, I suppose, very presentable but neutral.

Probably the biggest compliment someone can give you is, "Gosh, you look great. You don't look tired."