To get people emotionally involved in something intellectual and political is important.
A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.
I really want my kids to feel, is that they can be themselves in the world.
I was thinking about how people were upset about the information that came out from Snowden about the NSA – many people were upset, including myself. But I was kind of surprised by how little we did about it – how little fighting we did.
I do seem to have a bit of a predilection for movies that say something transgressive.
I would like to have a home in the country that I could go to. First in this country and the other in the Mediterranean.
There is a need, especially right now in America, to be a bit provocative.
I’m still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Sometimes I go too far one way or too far the other.
You’re not going to do good work if you’re not choosing something because it inspires you.
There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn’t get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can’t get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
If I’ve learned anything as a mom with a daughter who’s three, I’ve learned that you cannot judge the way another person is raising their kid. Everybody is just doing the best they can. It’s hard to be a mom.
I don’t see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.
Sometimes things go really well, and sometimes they don’t, and it’s not ultimately the most important thing.
A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you’re rehearsing, you’re working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you’re doing the play, you have all day.
You’re invited to tons of parties, and you’ll wear these shoes and that dress, and it can be enticing, but I think it also sucks you dry. If you do it a little, sure, it’s fun, but too much and you start to lose your footing.
These past couple of years have been about learning to not sabotage myself in a subtler way – for instance, even just by putting moisturiser on when I get out of the shower. Learning to honour myself and believing that I’m worth taking care of.
I didn’t think at all about my body until after I stopped nursing. When I was nursing, my body was my daughter’s, I didn’t even think about it. Then I finished nursing, and I was kind of like “Oh, huh, wow, my body’s so different.”
Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you’re probably going to invest in somebody who’s going to deceive you. I’ve been conned a couple of times, but now I’m a little more savvy.
I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women’s roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
Some people would say you need what you need to work, but I need very little to work, because I learned how to make movies on tiny movies. It’s all kind of easy for me.