I think you get to see, through the different cult members, why people are attracted to a group like this. Everyone is there for a different reason and from a different background. That was part of what was interesting for us, in researching cults and exploring it. A lot of this happens in California.

The most intoxicating thing about being an actor is to surrender to a story that you never would have come up with.

That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.

My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics. I'm not one of those people who can just spout off numbers for things, if numbers are thrown at me.

I think movies do change people's hearts.

Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.

A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.