Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done.

I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.

You didn't have to work to keep your fear up, your energy up, or your anxiety. It is all kind of built into the process.

But for me, it [singing] was a way to get out the feeling of the song, and also to get out the feelings that, you know, roil in high school, to express something that I had no other way of expressing.

In my own experience of male and female directors, people have a much, much harder time taking a direct command from a woman. It's somehow very difficult for people.

Well, I got better after this, and my entire family really did appreciate it. Usually, they're resentful of movies that I go off and make, but this one had a bonus attached. But yeah, she had no breath.

We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration to keep going on the days that your low. We need each other in that way.