I'm A Would-be Rebel. The Good Girl

Love Is A Command To Rise To One's Highest Potential, The Best And Noblest Vision Of Ourselves. Love Is A Reward, The Greatest We Can Earn, Granted To Us For The Moral Qualities We Have Achieved In Our Lives.

I Have Never In My Life Found Myself In A Situation Where I've Stopped Work And Said, 'thank God It's Friday.' But Weekends Are Special Even If Your Schedule Is All Over The Place. Something Tells You The Weekend Has Arrived And You Can Indulge Yourself A Bit.

I Wonder What It Means When Americans Say I'm An American. In Britain The Culture Is Basically The Same From One End Of The Country To The Other. And When I Came Here And I Saw Americans Who Live, I Don't Know, In You Know, Northwestern California As Opposed To Americans Who Live In Louisiana, As Opposed To Americans Who Live In The Nevada Desert. English Even Is Literally A Picture That I Have In My Mind Of An Oak Tree In The Field, A Single Oak In A Green Field. And Also When I Think Of My Russian Roots, It's The Landscape That I Connect With As More Than Maybe The Poetry Or The Drama.

I've Not Won Different Awards - Many, Many Times - So Luckily I've Practiced That Whenever You Are Nominated For Anything, You Enter Into This Marvelous, Fantabulous Bubble Called The Bubble Of Nomination. The Minute The Envelope Is Opened And Your Name Isn't Called Out, The Bubble Bursts. And No One Calls You Up The Next Day To Say, 'so Sorry You Didn't Win,' Or 'you Looked Gorgeous - Nothing. If You Win, You Get About Another 24 Hours In That Lovely Bubble And Then - Pop - You Are Slightly Wet All Over From The Bubble And Realize That You Have To Get On With Real Life.

You Could Build Three Hospitals With The Cost Of One Film And I Take That Very Seriously.