I think the most interesting thing about any story is how people change. That's usually a struggle, because change is pretty much an uncomfortable thing.

People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with other people. When you connect with other people, you connect with something in yourself. It makes you feel happy. And yet it's so scary, it makes people feel vulnerable and unsafe.

It's strange, because it seems that society is kind of promoting or nurturing this kind of ostracized existence. People are kind of very much in their own little worlds.

I try to play real people who inspire me through something in their journey.

I personally kind of yearn to play characters who are complex and who strike a truthful chord in me and who are challenged in some way and, I guess, who kind of move through those challenges.

What I do affects others; what others do affects me.

I love kids, so working with them wasn't a problem.