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

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

Whenever I wore it there were some questions whether the outfit was just too over the top. I'm like, "Do you know who you're dealing with here, and her eccentricities, her style, her flair?" These little things were sometimes those - I love it. I love having a real-life model. But I also do flush it out with my own personal experiences and my own essence, and hopefully they mesh together.

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.

Whether youre making a million dollar film or a $100 million film there is never enough money, theres never enough time.

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 done TV, but never where you're given this much time to live with a character, to study the tone and hone it and repair stuff, to go back and watch old episodes and go, "Oh no, that's a misstep. That's a victory. I should do more of that, less of that."