“I like getting carried away by what is happening and then decide each scene based on the actors, the set and the light.”

I operate the camera, I always do it when I’m the director, and I like to approach it as a documentary, finding the images based on what happens, as it happens.

The most complex challenge for an actor is the ability to give dimension to the story from the time that it happened, not from the present.

Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.

I want to do entertaining films, where a woman gets the respect of being an actor.

Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They’re tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They’re self-demanding.

We’d go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.

I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.

What would I have done if I wasn’t an actor? Probably rob banks.

My height can be a problem. A lot of directors and photographers are sometimes not happy because I’m pretty tall and especially if I work with short actors the difference can be pretty massive.

I never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.