You dont necessarily have to be religious to pray.

I've done TV, but never where you're given this much time to live with a character, to study the tone and hone it and repair stuff, to go back and watch old episodes and go, "Oh no, that's a misstep. That's a victory. I should do more of that, less of that."

Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.

Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.

I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.

I cannot even imagine college. I'm white-knuckling it just letting my son go to kindergarten for eight hours a day.

I'm thinking about anything and everything. I'm making stuff up in my head, I'm using sense memory. Sometimes when it doesn't come and you've got no choice because you're getting paid to do it, you grasp at straws. It's always easy now with my kids. I just create some "what-ifs" in my head, something horrible that would devastate me as a mother.