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

I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

Music is what our feelings sound like.

There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.

In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.

No role is more challenging, rewarding and inspiring than my real-life role as a mom and a wife.

There's no wrong way to experience a film.

Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.

I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.

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

Let your eyes talk, mouth listens and ear sleeps.

The major problem of the world is, most of the people are unjustifiably angry and very few are loving.

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

He’d protect me and shelter me forever. But I was beginning to realize that being sheltered came at a price.

I believe the reason many Christians are so dull and lifeless in their faith is because they are not in the battle, not using their weapons, not advancing against the enemy.

One of the great things about drama is that it makes you feel like you're not a crackpot, and that there are other people who think and feel the way you do.

I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.

Any great movie in the old days has a red herring. Hitchcock was so good at that.

Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career - which is very short.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.