People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks.

Studios weren't banging on my door to offer me parts... And I thought, well how am I ever going to make movies that speak to my heart and to my values?

I've worked really, really hard on myself to not be judgmental.

The bravest soldiers aren't unafraid, but they're the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.

Rituals are important. I get up. I take the dogs on a walk around to the front and then I pick up the papers. Then I walk around to the front door, then me and the two dogs come in the house and I give them treats. I make coffee. It's the regularity of these kinds of rituals that I find deeply satisfying.

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.