I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.

I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.

You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.

Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.

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

Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.

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.