My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.

I know what people want to hear is the connection with the son, Roger, when you have a child. I would love to tell that there was an epiphany as to what it is to be a mom, but I didn't feel any difference there.

There's something grueling but very appealing about rough, to-the-bone material in a low budget context. There's less between you and the material. There are less people. There is less time. There's often less technology. You have to concentrate very intensely, and you jump in a little deeper because there's nothing in your way... but there are challenges.

Most scripts are written to be green lit. They're not written to be acted. And a lot of writers with the greatest intention in the world don't write for actors. They don't understand the architecture of what an actor needs to get from point A to point B.

What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.

The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.

The thing about death is that it's honest. I go to things that have a core of honesty about them and there's nothing more honest than death.