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I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly.

But I majored in Drama, modified with Psychology.

I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.

I enjoyed playing someone who is a professional, intelligent, defined by her work and not her role as a wife or mother.

People have these ideas of what you're supposed to do to have a career, like play against type, or don't revisit a character. I'm just not that precious.

We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.

I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.

I first went into social services, and when I did my Ph.D. I looked at intellectual diversity rights as they apply to biological material. At the time, I never thought of what I'm doing now as a career. I thought I wouldn't find employment doing this.

Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology - looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does.