We were fortunate enough to have several good books detailing the camps and the women. Some were by the survivors. I also got to talk to some of the women who had been in the camp, survivors.

It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness.

I'm an actor, that's my contribution.

The word diva has a negative connotation.

Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.

I'm not a natural ocean person. I married into a family of swimmers, and I've slowly been drawn into the sea.

And those moments that I find mind busting. Meaning like there's a word that I find in a weird place. I love the process of going to the writer and working that out, because that's just basic communication.