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

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.

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

Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.

Being a mom myself and it being a huge and important part of who I am, made it easier for me to play the role of a strong, fierce, giving mom...

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

I've sort of prided myself on playing characters with conscience. The first way I go about creating a character is looking at that area of conscience. What have they done, and what has it cost.