When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

My earliest memories are of my brother, pointing the home video camera at me and saying, "C'mon, Ange, give us a show!" Neither of my parents ever said, "Be quiet! Stop talking!" I remember my father looking me in the eye and asking, "What are you thinking? What are you feeling?" That's what I do in my job now - I say. "OK, how do I feel about this?" And I immediately know, because that's how I grew up.

It's getting harder to make decisions to work for the sake of working. Like everybody, I'm trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply. Sometimes something like The Tourist comes up and it's just fun, but it's not as easy to find projects that I have to do. I have to be home and I have to do other things, but I don't have to work as much.

I don't really send text messages. I rarely carry my phone. I occasionally check messages at the end of the night, but I don't carry it around.

When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.

If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety.

There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.