It felt really good to kind of find my voice and say stuff, and to be funny, hopefully.

I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.

In the '90s, indie movies could get financing, because financers gave money straight to directors... Now it's a different system. Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system.

There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level

My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994.

You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.

Early on it was much easier to play leads, but now independent movies are being co-opted by the studio system, and they want bigger names to guarantee more audience and more numbers.