With the most interesting directors, the cast comes together to make something magical that nobody counted on.

I can't speak for other people, but for me, it never really worked to think something like, "What Beatle did she like in high school?" or those kinds of elaborate backstories.

I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.

One night I looked down and my rosary beads were glowing. And I realized that I did not want to see the blessed Virgin - I was terrified.

When I grew up in the church, we were praying because the Communists were going to come over and hang you upside down on a cross, and I so wanted to be a good person, and I had these rosary beads that I would sleep with every night, and I just wanted the blessed Virgin to be on my side.

It's important to just keep wanting whatever it is you want and fight for it, desperately.

On parochial school I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.