The ordinary is ultimately what moves us most deeply. It's what touches us, and it's what we most recognize, in great moments of art.

So many young people feel powerless. We live in a world where it feels like it's so big and yet so small, and that your contribution really doesn't matter.

I am so proud of Amelia Boynton. I can burst with pride.

I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers, and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

It is the ordinariness of us that is the same in all of us.

We actors are superstitious creatures. We do all the homework and we put all of the components together, but there's always one key aspect that we're not in charge of, really, and that's magic. You are always on the lookout for where and how that magic is going to ignite. When you have worked as much as I have and have sought it out as often as I do, you get very clear that it will come at very, very odd, unexpected moments.

A lot of our young people are sleep-walking, dreaming that they're awake, and lots of aspects of society initially go about keeping it so.