I have a lot of frustration with religion, organized religion, because it's man-made, because it's man-regulated. And it has nothing to do with my relationship with God.

I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.

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.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

I listened more than I asked. There's a lot of information online, so many Youtube videos, countless interviews with all those obvious questions that were all answered for me. I just wanted to absorb her essence. I wanted to see the details, she has such mad style. I just wanted to see - the way she communicates with her hands, these gestures, her smile, how she moves through space.

I was a Ukrainian folk dancer in my teens, and I toured the country in 1991, shortly before the break-up of the Soviet Union.

Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.