The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.

I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.

When you're breastfeeding a child, you don't have the same retention as you do when you're not.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

Just because I’m telling a story about a woman losing faith is not my rebellion against what I grew up in. If anything, it really affected the way I approached the story, and in fact, approach everything. I don’t judge my characters.

Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.

I always thought Uncle Vanya could be a stoned masterpiece.