One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She's 9 and it's really a good film for all ages.

Most of life is hell. It’s filed with failure and loss. People disappoint you. Dreams don’t work out. Hearts get broken. Innocent journalists die. And the best moments of life, when everything comes together, are few and fleeting. But you’ll never get to the next great moment if you don’t keep going. So that’s what I do. I keep going.

I always find it particularly difficult to work in New York because there are so many things to do.

I think indie films are really important, because they show the studios and the audiences when they see them, great stories. Really interesting, small stories.

After I left Yale, we were all doing these mad plays off - off Broadway. And I got back to that feeling I had from college, of everyone making up in front of one cracked mirror, which is what I loved - the scrappy theater idea. I think off-off Broadway healed me, made me an actor again, and I was in so many different crazy shows.

There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.

It's such a nice change to get to play a wretched, shallow, mergers-and-acquisitions woman. My true colors come out.