You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.

But filming is good for you, because the crew isn't allowed to laugh. You can't get addicted to getting the laugh.

I do believe female directors, as well as our female writer, can bring out male vulnerability that some men can't because they can't face it.

If it's a really well written villain, he probably has more layers than the archetypal good person. So that would be very attractive to an actor. No one chooses to be a villain; it's usually a reaction to something else.

But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.

They're a very strange lot actors, very strange people.

I'm open to any project, but my joyful projects are those through which I can say something and through which I can speak to the an audience of people in the world, and I can be that vehicle through which something can be said, I find that entirely thrilling and joyful.