My kids are at the age now where they are both in school. |
never wants to feel resentful on a film again. I can never work again for a bad person with a huge ego. |
Nobody believes me ... She goes through a very interesting journey in the film. One of the most challenging that I've ever done, from trying to keep it together and trying not to become hysterical, to as time goes by, and she starts fearing for her daughter's safety and what might be happening to her, and sort of leading herself in some ways to a kind of madness. |
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from. |
Once I had kids, my life with them became so significant, |
Once I had kids, my life with them became so significant, ... So something else has to really be important to drag me away. I have an identity that's very strong without being an actor. I don't need to do that just to be someone. I exist as a person without necessarily being an actor. |
Russell, I think, it was a better performance than what he has ever given. |
She was perhaps one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, and yet her name will forever be linked to the horror of Nazi Germany. There is no other woman in the 20th century who has been so admired and vilified simultaneously. |
Silence of the Lambs. |
That definitely has some effect on me, |
That was heartbreaking, to have that fall apart, two weeks before shooting, |
The movie worked because people believed in her heroism. I won't play her with negative attributes she'd never have. |
There's a kind of intensity that she has, and a real focus, ... I can glean from her personality that she's going to have a very long career and is going to be a very centered person. You just look at her and go, wow, this kid has really got it together, and it's just so nice to see. |
They're not your movie star; they're not your big names. ... There's something about their work and their inner life that I just love and am so attracted to. |
You have to make a big effort to try to have a life, and that's important to you only if you spent your entire childhood not having one, |