My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.

If your ethics in the military, in your training, is going to be counterminded by a one-hour weekly television show we've got a really big problem.

When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And I had a baby at 20 years old, so it wasn't just about me. At around the age of 30 there was a stretch where I wasn't working - certainly not on anything I liked, anyway - and I started to do other things.

Some days I'm in better control and can navigate my way through stuff, and other days, not so much.

If you're going to break cinema, film, and movies apart, very rarely to you get the opportunity to even think that you've been a part of cinema.

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

I consider myself to be a relatively helpful person, and there's an interesting line when hope starts to become the way you actually mask or hide from what's really happening.