Some of the roles that are challenging are more in theater and TV. In movies, there's a tendency to cast actors in roles that have been successful for them. It has to pay for itself.
When I was doing comedy in New York, before I was in movies, I was never known as the deadpan actress. I was just a comedienne.
The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.
The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.
Bad movies are when people go, 'oh, I wasted $10 bucks and 2 hours and I don't even want to go back again.'
I don't see my movies. I think it's healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I'm afraid to be disappointed.
Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
I don't go see big, silly movies. I like small things about regular folks, you know?
I can't just sit around and do nothing. Although, I can sit on the couch sometimes and just watch movies.
The whole thing with animated movies is that it's very hard to get out of your head because it's very moving through each line systematically.
Mostly in movies an actor has to come to a mark, an X, and deliver his line - but that's so artificial, that's not how people really behave.
We watched a lot of Hong Kong action movies in my house when I was growing up.
As most actors/actresses, I don't like to watch my own movies, either, and I never look at the dailys while filming.
I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.
I think I've done 200 plays and 125 movies, so I've been very lucky to have made a living at acting.
And like everybody else, I like the Rocky movies, but if you look at them again you can see all the misses, but the intensity of it, but that wasn't what this is.
As a kid, I liked the 'Halloween' movies and 'Nightmare On Elm Street' and all that kind of stuff. But as an adult, I really don't watch much horror, to be honest.
The theoretical casting part of movies is the funnest part. You really can imagine so many different versions of a story based on who's embodying it.
It's so tough to get movies made in Ireland anymore. A whole generation of Irish filmmakers doesn't have the resources to get a movie made.
Well, acting has been a dream of mine since I can remember; being in the movies and acting, having those experiences.
I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.
