I did find my direction at an early age.
Oh, Zoe Kazan - I'd move back to Brooklyn for her. She makes me happy with my life. Knowing her, being at her dinner table, going on a walk with her is the best of all possible worlds.
One of the best things - and something I'm grateful for every time I walk onto a film set - is my six and a half years on Dawson's Creek and the experience it afforded me in how to get comfortable with the camera.
I was born with a fierce need for independence.
When my daughter asks, 'What do you do?', every movie I have a different answer. As she grows, she wants more explanations.
I started acting as a child in Community Theatre but I didn't do any serious stuff. It was all musicals like 'Annie' and 'Wizard of Oz.' I was always in the chorus.
I've come to learn that the choices I labor over and go back and forth about and ask a million people for their opinions and make lists about... those are always the wrong choices.
I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence.
I'm not a happy person when I'm working.
Everything's connected, and everything has meaning if you look for it.
I'm not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what's on my bedside table rather than what's in my bed.
I am a huge Leonard Cohen person.
Listen, I've always been very headstrong.
I mean, I am still such the-good-girl. I want everybody to like me. I want everybody to be happy.
An interview is like a minefield.
I'm not going to rush anything and scamper around like a mad person and make myself crazy.
The idea that you can get everything you want in one person is destructive, and maybe when you accept that the number is closer to 50 or 60 or 70 percent, that's when you can start to make some progress in choosing the right person.
I'm very conscious of the fact that when I'm working, my daughter is not with one of her parents.
Is there anything better than making a kid laugh?
When I was filming the Marilyn Monroe movie, I was listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen.
