[When she initially read the script, Danes was amazed that Martin, a 30-year show-business veteran, could so clearly recall the particulars of his salad days.] Steve was great in establishing those details, ... He's really exact, even with the numbers. We learned how much [Mirabelle] owes, exactly, and what she has to pay off, and you know she has $4 every day to buy her sandwich. This seemingly petty stuff can really impact a person's experience. |
All I will say is that we work very well together. |
All the partner-swapping and reversals are farcical and a little Shakespearean, ... I play the straight man while everyone else is so eccentric. |
He's an incredibly dynamic person. I don't know if the general public is so conscious of that. He's a skillful, celebrated writer. He also collects art in earnest, and he's also an incredible musician. You should hear him play the ukulele. It's ridiculous what he's capable of. |
I became very successful at a young age, ... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it. |
I have a huge, active imagination, [and] I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman. |
I have a huge, active imagination, [and] I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman. |
I played a girl. There's really nothing controversial about her. She's just fine. She has to be fine in order to make Sarah Jessica's character pop, ... I say I just play a white girl in that movie. |
I played a girl. There's really nothing controversial about her. She's just fine. She has to be fine in order to make Sarah Jessica's character pop. I say I just play a white girl in that movie. |
I really appreciate her focus and discipline, ... This industry is very powerful and overwhelming and intimidating. She knows it and has created her own culture within it. And that integrity. She's got it. |
I think Jeremy wants things, and I think that's a great moment when (Mirabelle) says, 'You should just do it,' ... I think she just harnesses it or funnels it into some sort of point, and all of a sudden he has a goal. But I think at the beginning it's just a frustration and a desire to do things, but he doesn't really know how to do them, and that's what sets him off on believing you can make the things that you don't see happen. I think he has ambition; I don't think he's familiar with how that feels. |
I think they're both inward-looking. That's the most obvious parallel between the two, |
I used to talk about my personal life all the time. It's the most fun thing to talk about, ... the people in my life are hurt. |
I was dying to do that, to work with Jodie again. |
I was really tired of that, so this opportunity landed on my lap. I was cast literally the day before I started working, |