I'm thinking about anything and everything. I'm making stuff up in my head, I'm using sense memory. Sometimes when it doesn't come and you've got no choice because you're getting paid to do it, you grasp at straws. It's always easy now with my kids. I just create some "what-ifs" in my head, something horrible that would devastate me as a mother.

I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.

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

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.

Esquire needs to be more like a mommy blog

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.