Once someone is in your family orbit, there's a mutual responsibility, and whatever happens to them happens to you.

There's no experience like on-the-job training.

I've always been a fan of plain writing. I hate metaphor-laden, heavily larded, lyrical writing.

I guess I'm used to seeing actors, but rock musicians still hold a special magic for me.

When you become deeply involved with someone, their problems become yours, and vice versa. It's family.

As an actress, you're living something through the duration of the play and its geography. I've always seen writing the same way. It's like somehow I'm moving through the terrain of the book as a performer.

You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving.