If you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention..

There's a lot of different ways of going about teaching acting and ultimately you have to just kind of create your own. You have to be the author of ….

If you push in every time there's a big moment, then the tenth time you push in, you're not going to get the same effect. Or if you have too many clo….

Things either become unclear in a story or they're just ambiguous with no real point. So defined gray area with clarity that also works in the narrat….

I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With….

You end up loving every character that you play but a lot of the people I've played, I should just say for myself, I played, I wouldn't necessarily w….

This is a good thing to say to film students. If there's a story point that you don't feel right about, that there's a question you have - "Does it r….

It used to be the one or the other, right? You were the 'bad girl' or the 'good girl' or the 'bad mother' or the 'good mother,' 'the horrible busines….

Sometimes people don't rehearse at all, but you might have had a chance to rehearse for a few days, or even more than that. Then in the moment when t….

I'm just as intrigued by acting as ever. It's an ongoing process. There's no arrival. There's no point at which you say "Oh, OK, done it, got it." It….

I can be very snobby about fiction, especially contemporary fiction. I can be kind of overly demanding, I think. But this is, I think, a good time. A….

Modern acting is method acting, most of it. And there are sort of different schools, so I guess I'm not really from one school or another. I had a nu….

Why I love acting is that it's totally subjective and I like that. I like that..