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

Our family may seem extraordinary in some magazines or something, but at home it's not. We're really just a very loving family. We're very close, and we don't read magazines. We just kind of go to work and come home. We try to keep a sense of reality into their lives. What's truly real, not Hollywood real.

I have a certain energy on screen, and it's either needed or it's definitely not needed. I know that I can stick out like a sore thumb, and there are some women I'm not ready to play.

I think doing anything having to do with war, you walk away so very grateful for everything you have and the safety that you have.

It's probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories that I want to tell. If you're going to spend two years of your life on something it has to matter to you, you have to be passionate about it.

If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

I can tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.