I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.

I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.

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 can't do Los Angeles. I've always been the anti-Barbie. I don't want to be in a place where almost every woman walks around with puffy lips, little noses and breasts large enough to nourish a small country.

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them - my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a wife, as a lover, as a daughter.

Patrick sort of had a very pragmatic, practical, Ed-like approach and went down to see.