Too many people have died so unnecessarily; AIDS is completely preventable, yet it's killing more kids in South Africa then everything else, and that's just not how it should be.

I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films.

I really love having an awareness.

I've never been the kind of actress that just likes to show up and say my lines. I'm fascinated by what the crew does.

The tone is so important to a film, and that tone can really make something fall or succeed.

I don't try to kind of go for the overly sympathetic. I don't really like sympathy; I don't like it for myself. Sometimes sympathy you feel like, you're kind of trying to victimize someone.

In life we want to challenge ourselves...