The light and the dark are the same. They share. They really do rub up against each other, and they are extraordinarily familiar with each other. They are actually friends.

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...

I love characters that are very layered and complex. It's more exciting and different than any simple role- plus, I love a good challenge.

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'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.

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.