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

I feel my fuller-bodied characters are all in the independent films I do, and in the studio productions, I have to work harder to dimensionalize the characters. And that's certainly part of the job description of an actor - that's what you're supposed to do - but you have to work harder at it in the characters that I've encountered in studio films.

I just want to make sure that the thing that I see in it initially, that I think it can be, is not just going to be a horror film and reduced to a jump here and a scream there. But that you can take something away from it.

I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have.

There really are three types of religious movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.

When you're breastfeeding a child, you don't have the same retention as you do when you're not.

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.