I am so thrilled to be nominated for something I loved working on every single day.

Everything, every part that you approach has to be somehow rooted in yourself. You have to somehow root everything so that it's not just words coming out of you.

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.

This is just the loveliest news. I'm so happy for everybody involved, and so proud to have been part of the wonderful experience that Philomena has been.

Every experience that you experience yourself you use, because that's our craft.

I would like to work with Jack Nicholson, before it's too late.

I feel with this film that as long as we tell Philomena's story and as long as we're true to her, which Jeff and Steve have already done by writing the story... we must not sell her short;. She's a most remarkable woman and all my concern was that we must be absolutely true to her story.