I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.

I cherish each director that I have. I want to be maneuvered out of my comfort zones. I don't have the time to prepare.

The nature of evil, the nature of it, it exists. It exists and I think within us we have the tools. If we have the will, we can combat it. I think the power is within us and it lies in our own conceptualization of God and positivity and compassion and love.

I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.

I bet you could look at every single thing I've ever done and reduce it to that parenting schematic.

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.

I’m someone who can sit in a Buddhist temple, and I can sit with Pentecostals or with Orthodox Jews, and I still feel like I am in tune with all of them.