I always find filming stressful. I get very caught up thinking about my character - 'Am I doing it right? Should it be done this way?'

Powerful women are the most interesting to play.

I always find filming stressful. I get very caught up thinking about my character - 'Am I doing it right? Should it be done this way?'

It's more instinctive to want revenge, but we are also capable of immense amounts of forgiveness and love and a compassion that extends even to those who have brutalized us.

I like to believe that we all pray to the same god.

I never make suggestions. I really don't. I know a lot of actors who get a part and then they dissect it and they want to change it and they want to add stuff. I'm always amazed and so impressed by actors who do that.

I was really nervous, because I was certain it was going to be bigger than anything I'd ever done before. But I was relieved when I actually discovered that there was a family atmosphere on the set, with a brother-sister team, Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson running it all.