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You have to give a wound time to heal and think of other people's feelings.

You have to be completely in the character, and that's so hard to do. That's why, when they call, 'Cut!,' you often feel yourself shift. Unless you're Daniel Day Lewis, who stays in character all the time, there's a switch that happens.

Sometimes I forget to say 'cut' because I am so lost in the performance.

I am only an actress when they say, 'action' and I stop being an actress when they say, 'cut'. I am a normal person outside of acting.

I've cut myself out... I've cut scenes out that I was in and that's when you realize that you've got to make the best movie you can.

Whenever I am acting, it's everything, you know. If I'm researching a role, I'm completely consumed in that and, between action and cut, I live in this suspended time.

I have to admit that I was very happy to finish 'In the Cut,' and happy not to return to it.

Sometimes you see a movie and you can really feel that it's an actor putting in a performance. Someone said 'cut' and they're back in their trailer having a coffee or getting their hair done.

Sometimes I feel like I'm taking on a role when I'm writing a song, and it doesn't always have to be true. I'm not sitting in my room crying with my guitar, writing a slow solo about a depressing breakup; that's not me.

In treatment, all of the negative things I did were stripped away and I had to start processing my feelings.