I've gone out of my way to not take baggage with me from film to film.

She was this incredible mom. With each of her kids, she did something called `time,' where she would spend an hour each day doing whatever the kid wanted to do, whether it was play spacemen or `Let's go into your makeup, and I'll make you up like a clown.' And as a teenager you'd be like, `Rub me, Mom. Give me a massage.'

You have that Frank Capra kind of side to it and the characters are really well drawn, so I think everybody tried their best to stay faithful to the script.

Everybody loses a couple, and you either pack it up and go home or you keep on fighting.

Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.

Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops a little bit for me. It brings me out of the movie experience. Now we have the technology to cure that.

The Oscar nomination is great. It's a great pat on the back. And I like that.