I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.

I really haven't joined the 20th or the 21st century yet. Someday. I'm getting closer. I have voicemail and a fax machine.

At the core, I am an actress. And I think, in a way, that's a good thing in that I am, I think, empathetic and sympathetic to the film. I would never pretend to have the discerning and acute critical eye that a lot of the great critics in our business do have. I don't look at it as being a critic or placing a judgment on a film, and I do think, how do you decide which film is best anyway? It's always a little bit of a mixed bag. But, I think it is just a collective group of people coming together to honor the work of an artist - that's how I think of it.

Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?

I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.

But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.

I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.