never wants to feel resentful on a film again. I can never work again for a bad person with a huge ego.

because she's one of the few female figures in contemporary film to not only have successfully navigated a childhood performing in the movie business, but has consistently selected progressive roles for women in film.

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.

I don't like the outside world to intrude when I'm making a film. I like to either see my family or work, but I don't like to go out.

But these things, you stick with them, work with them, and they bubble up again, eventually,

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.