I've done a gazillion readings that have gone on to be movies that are made without me.
I've definitely had times in my life where I've been depressed and not able to do anything at all.
I'm not one of those people who can cry on cue. If I have to cry in an audition, I'm like, 'Okay, let me see what I can do.
I feel so lucky to have done so many things that I love in the past few years so I'm just going to keep trying to do them.
I was at university and I was studying modern drama and studying English, and I just was like, 'I don't wanna be in this place. I wanna be acting.'
I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script.
I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for it.
Sometimes you just feel so fortunate to be in the company that you're in and you just want to soak it all up.
I don't think I've played a lot of crazy people. If ever I had a choice between two movies, I'd try to do whatever was the opposite of what I did last time.
Even though it's still, annoyingly, something everybody feels the need to bring up to anybody who doesn't look like a model, there are more women now who are super successful and have different body types. You know, like men do. That feels like progress to me.
Honestly, I think if I had to stop acting I'd be like, 'Well, I guess I have to go live in the mountains now.' I'd probably be a good assistant.
There's a rhythm to script [ in "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore"], as well, especially the pacing of it. But there definitely were times when I would say something and [ Macon Blair] would say, "I didn't think to deliver it like that" or, "I didn't think it had that meaning." And he'd say, "I like it. I think it's good." So he's open. He's not battering it into you.
I think there's so many little specific things in the script [of "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore"]. And the script was also structured so beautifully that I didn't want to mess with it.
People have something on their mind. It almost feels [on marches against now-President Donald Trump] like after-tragedy. People seem sort of preoccupied.
I talked with [ Blair Macon] a lot. I always like to come up with it - sometimes the filmmaker is not into it at all.
It's always nice for me to get to explore somebody who's feeling that and then does something with it and takes it in a different direction or does something with it. It feels very powerful. It helps me with my own.
I feel like I'm always put with someone who's like, "Come on! Please be happy!".
It's good to feel tired at the end of the day. It's not often as an actor that you're like, "Oof. Ow. I feel like I've been out working."
I'm pretty active, so I wasn't really worried [about filming "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore" ]. But there was a day when I was like, "God, I've been rowing for two hours."
Even just reading "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore,"I got a sense of the world and the story [Macon Blair] wanted to tell. And then I had a meeting with him and understood how he likes to work. I really trusted him from the beginning.
I always like [while filming] to have a sense of what led this person to this point.
For "The Intervention" I came up with a back-story and Clea [Duvall] was like, "No." And I was like, "I don't care."
