People Equate Success With Youth. And If

I've Never Done Anything That I Felt Was Crossing The Line For Me. But Everybody Has To Make That Decision Individually. Like, I've Never Shot Heroin To Play A Heroin Addict. I've Never Turned A Trick To Play A Prostitute. Whatever. You Draw The Line Where You Feel It Could Be Harmful.

You Try To Find The Internal Life, But A Lot Of It Is Creating It Through Physical Behavior And Figuring Out The Voice When You Create As Much Of A Past As You Would In A Naturalistic Piece. But It's Fun, Because It's Like You're Learning Something, Learning Some Kind Of Physical Skill.

I Like To Investigate All Different Kinds Of People, I Guess, And Find Out What Makes Them Who They Are, And Try To Be Honest In The Portrayal, And Truthful, And Find Out How To Understand That Person, How To Communicate That Person's Experience.

There's So Much Confidence And Freedom That Comes From That Way Of Doing Things. Robert Altman And Alan Rudolph Make The Set The Place To Be. It's Fun. It's A Kind Of Creative Freedom That's Really Inspiring. Altman Loved Actors So Much. He Was A Great Mentor For Me, Really.

I Feel Like I Turned Down A Lot Of Things That I Wish I Hadn't. But You Never Know When You're Younger. I Don't Have Regrets About Certain Things I Turned Down. Those Films Would Have Required Things Of Me That Would Have Been Challenging, And They Ended Up Being Really Good Movies. But I Was Never A Careerist, I Never Thought In Those Terms. I'd Be Like, "oh, I'm Tired. I Don't Want To Work."