I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self.

I was always very curious about other people. I would always stare and my mother would say - just please close your mouth!

As much as there are intellectual choices to be made and all the rest of it, a great actor has the ability really, to disappear and lose themself in a kind of mystical fashion. My appreciation and fascination with true acting is really all over the book, definitely.

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another.

Writing is acting in the sense that you're imagining and inhabiting another. In the book I was trying to get at the root of what true acting is.

I have a great drive to make things and sometimes I forget to slow down a little.

I would have started writing a lot earlier if I hadn't been [Arthur Miller's daughter].