Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.
Vera FarmigaI am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.
Vera FarmigaWe're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it's the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do.
Vera FarmigaI feel my fuller-bodied characters are all in the independent films I do, and in the studio productions, I have to work harder to dimensionalize the characters. And that's certainly part of the job description of an actor - that's what you're supposed to do - but you have to work harder at it in the characters that I've encountered in studio films.
Vera Farmiga