It's a miracle when something actually turns out well because there are so many ways for it to go wrong.

I hesitate to direct even though I feel I contribute a lot on a set.

As a mother trying to raise kids with some kind of a code, an honorable way to solve problems without using violence, I find it interesting to live in a country where your government is allowed to kill, whether it's war or execution. What interests me is not who deserves to die but who deserves to kill.

It's a very exciting time in the history of this country, to even see people responding to a different way of doing business and really wanting to make a change.

He has a very strong vision of what he wants.

I'm kind of a nerd, so whenever I get a chance to talk to an artist I really admire, I tend to gravitate to process.

To become a lapsed Catholic, first go to a Catholic university.