The more visionary the idea, the more people it leaves behind.

I hate the analyzing thing. People say, 'Why do you think your character did that? I don't know. I'm not an analyst, and they're not in psychotherapy. Unless it's a film where they're in therapy.

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally. That is a hard thing - especially when you have children of your own and you remember what happened to you at that age.

I don't get the point in a lot of biopics, they're boring. You know what's gonna happen. You're just watching actors show off.

I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.

I was physically abused and I retaliated.