Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

It seems to be this hot-bed for these ideas and bringing these groups together. You find that the one thing that everybody has in common, whether they're a teenager who has run away from his parents, or a divorcee who lost her husband, is that they all have in common this feeling of searching for a meaning in their lives.

I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything.

There are so many filmmakers who are so talented, and actors and writers who work so hard, and it's really hard to let your work enter the world.

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

I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.

So much of the world is being brought up on these stories that Hollywood is coming up with and exporting all over. They have so much power and influence, so it's really important that they represent women properly.