I honestly do not think about celebrity or image or sexual expectations on me. It only comes up when people have a list of questions. But what I am told is that there is a quality that I have onscreen, where it's a little bit of everything.

Sometimes it's an external approach where one can learn the skills required, let's say, learn to play the trumpet and in that process other things happen. It's magical: through the process of practicing four hours a day you start focusing on emotion and when you pick up the trumpet it's filled with feeling.

There is a way of looking at an awful place from a certain angle that allows it to take on a beauty because it is what it is.

When you get up in the morning, set your motivations.

(Sometimes when) someone's directing for the first time, they're afraid to include everyone - they have to prove they're the director.

A lot of making a movie is the comfort level of the people. It's just feeling open. We need to get along. We have to know something about each other.

There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character.