You relate to a character and you find that character within yourself. It's all parts of me. I don't leave characters behind. I just let them go.

My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of them. We lived a 'Leave It to Beaver' time.

Most things in my life I had before leaving home. Values, support, great family. I was shaped at an early age. A musician playing guitar, I wanted to be a folk singer.

I've not had a mean life.

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

I wanted to put all my family stories down for my girls, and I remember everything so vividly. I just wanted to put everything down while I still can remember it all.

I've always been a people-watcher, and as an actor, later, I just mined all those little details.