I just wanted to make sure that yes, that those horror - they worked as a genre. To me, I just wanted to be touched by the film in the way that I saw plausible. Which is the story about compassion - giving and receiving it in those desperate times of need.

The different tempos and yeah, it's cadence. It's the way she moves through space, it's gestures.

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

No role is more challenging, rewarding and inspiring than my real-life role as a mom and a wife.

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.

In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

I think all religions can agree on certain definitions of God and concepts of God, like God being the god of love, the great 'I am' energy.