The things that make me happy most are my family and working.
I'm interested in people's darker side, the ones that aren't easy and well balanced. The cracks.
Weirdly enough, I don't like to pretend. I try to use things in me, and translate them into the situation and the characters, so it always needs to run through my own veins.
I think it's always the emotional situations that are more tricky to nail and get into because I don't want to pretend.
With most movies I've done before, I've done a lot of preparation. I've known about them long before [shooting], and I've prepped and changed my body and done research, and all the things you could imagine.
Sometimes I have good ideas. I love that part of our job. It's a constant process of searching, of exploring stuff, and realizing things. You can be in the middle of the film and it's like, "Oh my God! I think we need to do this! Maybe in this scene she should shave her head!"
I'd much rather work with people that are tricky and difficult than people that just say yes to everything.
My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever I made a new friend, I made a point of finding out his or her birthday early on, and I would record it in my Filofax calendar.
Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
Pythagorean thought was dominated by mathematics, but it was also profoundly mystical.
I already hated that gray suit and then having to go through putting on that wig with a false front - again made me feel so trapped inside this person who was desperately wanting to break out of it but she was so caught up in the web of deception that she couldn't.