We make a contract within ourselves as actors or directors or writers about how much of ourselves we let into projects. You can actually figure out before you work on something how much blood you will have to let emotionally.

I knew I was happy when I was dancing.

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11.