On a personal level, just for me in my own work, I would say the most interesting thing has been getting to work with the people that I've worked with.

I think a large part of an actor's job in preparation is just making the words feel organic to them, and obviously they came out of me, so they felt organic to me already. And then I think then it was all about clearing away all the other voices.

What I did have was an incredible amount of belief in myself.

I grew up with my grandfather [Elia Kazan] being famous in a way that's not like Beyoncé, but famous in a relative way. It made me feel weird about the way that we treat people that are famous, and it made me feel weird about fame in general.

I'm not that interested in writing for myself. That's not where my impetus as a writer comes from.

If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.

I had a real feeling of being fated to be an actor and do my work, and I remember so much speaking up in a room full of people who authentically knew as much or more than me, and feeling like I was absolutely equal, and what I had to say was important.