I think because of my background - I went through university and did an academic career and fell into acting - I've never had a game plan for my career because I got into it quite ad hoc.

Because you've done the horrible jobs, it gives you an even grittier determination to succeed.

I got into acting for the different scenarios and roles and meeting different people.

People identify with being heartbroken. We've all been heartbroken, haven't we? I've been dumped, and it feels horrible.

So many of my favorite stories, in any medium, are about friendship. Those relationships are so often just as emotional and complex as any romantic or family dynamics, and yet there's a dearth of resonant, grounded films about platonic bonds in American films.

I've had my heart broken in a lot of different ways a lot of different times by different people - whether it be a family member, a girlfriend, a friend, just all types of relying on people, making yourself vulnerable to people.

I've never had friends, and I don't like to be around big groups of people.

I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.