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

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

With Dazed and Confused I got the high school experience I didn't get to have. So you do create families and homes. You're projecting and it's your job. The amount of time and headspace and thought it takes on your psyche is huge. It's exhausting, yeah. And it's exhausting but it's also great.

I liked being able to portray a woman at this particular age and at this point in her life.

I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like

I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.

I was around New York at a time when independent cinema was at its peak and became kind of popular and mainstream. It got some hype, culturally. After that, studios started to have independent companies within their studio system, and they found bigger stars willing to do new material. That's kind of what it's turned into.