Actress

It's really wonderful to play characters as different from each other as I can.

Working on 'Mad Men' was an incredible experience. It was such an incredible show with beautiful writing and so much complexity.

I remember seeing the performance Samantha Morton did in 'Sweet and Low Down' where she didn't speak at all, and I loved it so much because she got to do so much work just by expressing herself in her body and her face. With expressions, it wasn't necessary to speak. I find that appealing.

I think that's what makes life interesting - the evolution of getting older, and it's kinda fascinating to me, the whole process.

It gets kinda monotonous, but that's television. There are plus sides and down sides. The positive side is that you have steady work for nine months of the year for however many years your show is on TV,.

'The Handmaid's Tale' takes place in the near future, a dystopian future, and is based on the book by Margaret Atwood. It takes place in what was formerly part of the United States at a period of time when society has been taken over by a totalitarian theocracy. It's about the women who live in subjugation.

When we first filmed 'Gilmore Girls,' I didn't know it would build such a cult following.

Sylvia Plath wasn't scared of exploring the darker side of her psyche.

I was a film major.

I think there's so much to play in adolescence; there's so many conflicting things happening and so many changes, and there's just a lot of good stuff to play there as an actor.

A story isn't interesting unless a character has real challenges to deal with.

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.

Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.

Luckily, I have the kind of personality where I am extremely private. I don't really like to tell everyone my business. I'd much rather people wonder or not know.

I always thought that I would work behind the camera, because it's a more comfortable place for me to be, really.

Well, I think that a lot of times when you're working on a film, there aren't really opportunities to get to know all the people you have to work with.

Nearly a decade of time is enough for everybody to change, quite a bit.

In my life, I don't need to have my face plastered everywhere. It's not really something I want.

Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to.

I figured out that I was interested in acting while at NYU.