You Try To Find The Internal Life,

I'm Not Necessarily Less Gratified By Films Where You're Given Less Room To Maneuve. Because I Love A Great Script, And I Love To Respect It, And I Love To Try To Give A Director What He Needs And Wants, Especially Having Directed Now. [laughs.] I'm Much More Open To Try To Give Him What He Wants And Figure It Out. I Like Working With Directors I Respect And Admire, Obviously. And Everybody Has Their Own Way.

I Like As Much Time As I Can Get And I'll Do Whatever I Think Is Helpful To Prepare For A Role. Sometimes It's Practical Research, Meaning If I Had To Write Shorthand, I'd Learn How To Write Shorthand. Or If I Have To Know How To Dance A Certain Way, I Would Learn That. And Then There's Just Research Of Talking To People Similar To The Characters I'm Playing. And There's Stuff That I Just Feel Is Inspiring, Whether It Be Music Or A Painting Or A Photograph. I've Used A Lot Of Nan Goldin's Photos In The Past To Inspire Me. I Use Certain Paintings And Pieces Of Music.

Even When You Think You Can Detach Yourself From The Characters, You Don't. Because You're Spending So Much Time Trying To Realize This Person And Make Them Real That They Do Infect You, In A Way. And You Do Take Them Home And Live With Them, Even If You Think You're Turning The Character Off. But In Order To Pull Off A Role Convincingly, You Wind Up Thinking About That Person All The Time, And It Does Sort Of Creep Into You. And Then There Are Things That You'll Respond To, Or React To In A Very Different Way Than You Would Normally.

It's Very Exciting To Work With People Who Inspire You.

People Equate Success With Youth. And If You Haven't Had A Certain Amount Of Success By A Certain Time In Your Life, It's Never Going To Happen. There's A Fear About That. So People Start Lying About Their Age Really Young. I've Never Done That Because I Think It's So Insignificant.