I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.

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.

Much of what happens in life is a chance.

We can only live life when we understand life.

Sleep comes, no matter how deep the sadness cuts. It’s like a gift from the universe.

Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.

Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you're a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off, and don't feel that we're still the big bang. But you are.

Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

I never really marketed myself, so each job I was given was a new marketing tool, and that would be the way I marketed myself.

To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing.

Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back.