I always had a problem with original sin; I always had a problem with the exclusivity of the church and a lot of the things that the nuns taught me.

We need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet... I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things... all of it, all of the time, every day. You're saying 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness'.

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

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.

I'm always trying to have a good time on set because that's when things happen. That's when you're playful.

It's really hard to find stuff that is original. You pick up scripts and in four pages you know where it's going and the same thing when you are sitting in a theatre, I just rejoice when something unfolds in a way that I'm not conducive.

It gets to be 2 a.m., and they hand you a bottle of whipped cream and some syrup and things start getting silly.