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For working with non-professional actors, you have to have this particular desire to work with people who are reluctant to play in a movie. I like this relationship. I'm like a recruiter, an employment agency giving someone employment.

Working in film tends to isolate actors - it's your close-up; it's all about you.

I didn't really get involved too heavily with being an actual film person.

I've always been really into movies, and I definitely thought I'd be involved with movies at some point.

But in film you always watch situations or stories that you really have no relation to. A lot of times just because there's no personal connection doesn't mean you can't connect with the film or the characters in the film.

You know, honestly, acting in film is remarkably independent. You're doing your thing and someone else is doing their thing.

I'm not one of those actors where filmmakers that I admire ask me to be in their movies. I meet them at parties and they're nice to me, but they never ask me to work with them.

Your relationship to a film, and to cinema, is very much determined by yourself, so what is relevant is you.

I had a certain career as an actor that I think was quite personal as well, and had a lot of integrity, but I wasn't writing my own things or directing my own movies.

I think I'm a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn't want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time.