I feel like I’m one of the happiest people I know.
You know how a lot of people say they could go crazy? Well, I feel I live very close to that line.
Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family’s cottage in Maine. It’s on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing.
The work evolves when you get another part, and then you’re getting called on to solve difficult characters, to inject a note of humanity into them. It’s more interesting for me to do that than to stand around and be sunny.
To play Hillary Clinton? I’m kind of winging it. No, are you kidding me? I prepared obsessively. I mean, as much as I could in the time that I was given. Of course, with someone like Hillary Clinton, obviously, anything you want is on YouTube and at your fingertips there.
I’m not really high-strung now, but I was a very high-strung child.
I’m not at a point in my life when I’m analyzing too much.
I’m a New Yorker, and I rarely get to work at home.
I’m usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl.
There’s nothing I love more than a good cry.
Storytelling is what lights my fire.
I’ve been lucky. I’ve made films that I really like. It’s been a combination of what comes to me and what I choose. I’ve gone after lots of things that I didn’t get, pet projects that everybody ends up chasing after. Really, you’re lucky if you get anything.
I like to work. I enjoy once a year, doing a film.
The older you get, the more you realize that the way you look is a reflection of how you treat yourself.
I get to play a lot of hysterics.
I haven’t frequented a nail salon in a long time.
I just love to make a whole roomful of people laugh.
I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century.
I travel all the time, and I have two small children.
I would do ‘American Splendor’ and ‘About Schmidt’ again in a heartbeat.