As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character. And that's what used to draw me to scripts – something in a woman that I wanted to defend, something that I recognized or wanted to understand, something that turned my head.
As quoted in "Vera Farmiga interview: Chats 'Up in the Air' and her craft" by Stephen Whitty at NewJersey.com (December 7, 2009)