My mother said I was always an intense child, a very sensitive child. So that probably helped the emotions to be very present. I was just a big thinker. I would evaluate and analyze and feel and cry and discuss and be angry. All of those emotions were very surface for me.

You look at somebody's work as an actor and you can see their emotional life being fed into it and you can kind of feel them through it.

They give us access to another world, they give us access to dreams. It's our way of living in a different realm for a short period of time - and how beautiful is that?

I think having my life be as private and quiet as possible is a way in which then I can go and play characters.

I'm very much an admirer of people who are reaching for things and trying to survive.

Now I can wear high heels again.

I love that ["Big Little Lies"] is about women coming together and making something happen very quickly, with friendship being the core of it.