Not just as an actress, but on a human-being level, I've experienced frustration on many different levels. [With my] career, it would be more the frustration of not always finding challenging material or inspiring material ... [Acting is] therapeutic for me. I'm pretty accommodating.

I'm a full-time mom. I've never felt as prepared, as before maternity.

It's a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it's man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they're two different things.

Patrick sort of had a very pragmatic, practical, Ed-like approach and went down to see.

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

I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.

I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.