My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.

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.

Tess, there isn't a drunken, screaming netballer in the world that would have made me not want to ... continue.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

I am closed off into myself and no one but me can ever help me get out.

It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.

Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck." Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck.

You can wait forever for perfect conditions or you can make do with what you have.

Even the way the kids react with media today is so completely different than what most movies have. We just wanted to make a movie that challenged them.

[Songs] have to be a part of you. They have to be in your DNA. That's how I approached it.

Then I started to do furniture and interiors for a friend and just to get stuff in a magazine, and then slowly started to build up and started to doing exhibitions.

In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became a game.