I think as a human being, as a mother, as someone who works internationally, I needed desperately to know a man like Louis Zamperini in my life, to know that there is hope.

Love - is when you wish all the best to the people you love, when you put their interests and well-being above their own. Always.

We did work together surprisingly well, more than I thought we would, because I didn't know before we met if we would actually work together really well, and we had a great time.

If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is.

I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if I've earned that.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become.

The life changing moment for me what the first time I went to a war zone and that was Sierra Leone. I took two weeks, eleven years ago and I went. I wasn't an Ambassador or anything I just asked to go and I was allowed to go. It was like someone smacked me in the face.