If You're An Actor, You Have To

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 Lot Of Fiction Comes Out Right Now. So, I Like Reading The Memoir. I Love Memoir, The Biography, Auto Bio.

I Fall In Love With All The People I'm Working With, Women, Directors, Everybody. As Actors, That's Actually One Of The Real Pleasures Of The Work. You Have This Weird Opportunity To Get Unnaturally Close To People Very Quickly.

We Want To Be Seen For Who We Really Are, And Each Person Has His Own Complex Story And Reasons For Doing What They Do.

You Read Something And You Know It's Not There Yet. There's A Little Section Here That... This Part's Good But That Is A Little Not, It Doesn't Quite Work. That Doesn't Quite Work. That's Easy. To Say, "ok, Now, This Is What I Think Will Fix It." That's Harder. And Most People Can Tell You What's Wrong With Something. Very Few People Can Say What They Would Do To Fix It.

I Don't See Myself As Competing With Other Actresses. I Mean, I Went Through A Time When I Was In New York, And I Was Going To Lots Of Auditions And Trying To Get Parts, But Even Then, You're Not Really Competing With The Other Actresses. There Is A Competition Going On, But It's Not Like Something You Can Win In That Way.