I Think An Artist's Responsibility Is More

Every Movie Changes You. The Process Of Making A Film Changes You. You Have To Be Obsessed, You Have To Get Up At 3 In The Morning And Go "wait, I Have An Idea!" You Have To Continually Be Drawn Over And Over Again To Deepening Inside That Story, And Ruminating Over Questions: "why Would He Say This To Her? Why If He Was Standing There, Would She Go?" Every One Of Those Answers Has To Come From Some Personal Place, And In Order To Do That, You Can't Sit On The Surface. It's Such A Big Change That You Can't Really Explain It To Anyone Else.

We Think, "if I Have More Money, I Am More Valuable. If I Make More Money, I Am More Valuable." It's All Sort Of Wound Up With This Problem That Humans Have With Their Failure.

I Don't Know Why People Think Child Actresses In Particular Are Screwed Up. I See Kids Everywhere Who Are Totally Bored. I've Never Been Bored A Day In My Life.

When I Was Growing Up, Books Took Me Away From My Life To A Solitary Place That Didn't Feel Lonely. They Celebrated The Outcasts, People Who Sat On The Margins Of Society Contemplating Their Interiors. . . Books Were My Cure For A Romanticized Unhappiness, For The Anxiety Of Impending Adulthood. They Were All Mine, Private Islands With Secret Passwords Only The Worthy Could Utter.

I Like Dramas. I've Always Liked Dramas. And I'm A Pretty Light Person. I Don't Consider Myself A Very Dramatic Person. But I Do Like Doing That Onscreen.