It's such a joy to be able to play someone who is angry. It's a joy and a relief.

Composing means you have a beginning, middle and end and a fluidity to what you're doing.

I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt envious, every time I saw a movie that I was in awe of, and it was usually a male lead. And those kinds of roles weren't available. They just weren't being written.

I've done all my tricks. I'm tired of myself.

To me, true beauty isn't something that will wash off in the shower at the end of the day. It's something that's still there, before you go to bed and wake up in the morning. And, you know, they always say that's inner beauty, but it is.

My quest to find a great role for myself started long before this film [ "Our Brand Is Crisis"]came around.

I'm very musically inclined. My parents were opera singers. As a young child, I could hear operas and I knew if they were sad, or if they reminded me of something, or they brought back a memory.