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I Would Go Into Periods Of Depression In My Life, And I Would Feel So Alone. I Felt That There Was No One Who Understood How I Felt, Either On Tv Or In Music, And Writing Really Helped Me Change What I Thought And How I Felt About Myself.

There's Nothing I'd Say That Keeps Me Awake At Night, But I Think That When You're Working With A Group Of People That Are So Beyond Talented That, Every Day, You Wake Up Going, "all Right, I Gotta Fight To Stay At The Same Level As These People," That's What Makes It Fun.

I Had Started Acting When I Was 7, And I Was Always Wrong. I Would Always Get To The Very End [of The Audition], But I Wasn't A Perfect Package Of One Thing. I Wasn't A Cliche, And It Always Worked Against Me. I Wasn't Pretty Enough To Play The Popular Girl, I Wasn't Mousy Enough To Be The Mousy Girl. Then There Was A Tv Show That Toni Collette Was Starring In. And When A Role To Play A Girl Who Was Struggling With Identity Came, I Thought: "oh, This Is What I Was Supposed To Do. Everything's Leading Up To This Moment." I Was 18. I Was Like, "this Is It." I Didn't Get It. And I Was Devastated.

The Main Thing For Me Is Just The Length Of Time It Takes To Make A Movie. It's At Least A Year Of Just Talking About It, Talking About It With Yourself Or Your Director Or Your Other Castmates Or The Press, So You Just Want To Make Sure It's A Film That Although You Initially Feel This Pull Or This Drive To It, You Don't Really Have The Answers To Why You're Drawn To It. But It's More About Not Knowing The Answers To Certain Questions But Wanting To Go On The Journey Of Discovery To Find The Answers.

The Experience Of Making A Movie, You Start To See It Everywhere. It's Just This Amazing Mechanism That Your Brain Does Because It Just So Badly Wants To Be Helpful And Keep All The Information That You Need As Accessible As Possible.