Regret is a toxin that I try not to allow in my body.

It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality.

Then in came this script with another very low offer, and another drug addict and a depressing and difficult part to play. I thought, 'Why should I put myself through that for hardly any money?'

Regret is a toxin that I try not to allow in my body.

The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.

It's a sin to have your films not to make money.

I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice.