Faith is important to me.
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.
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.
There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession. And when those rare roles come along, like Down to the Bone, you have the opportunity to be of service.
The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a character in whom people suspend disbelief.
I just can’t feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don’t understand her and want to understand her.
Whether youre making a million dollar film or a $100 million film there is never enough money, theres never enough time.
I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.
I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.
But I think for me, why I was drawn to the piece is, at the core of the story, it’s a love story to me – between Ed and Lorraine, between these two families who are asking for help and us who are in the business of giving help.
Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.
I’ve played a lot of mothers in my movies.
Ruminants are a perfectly normal thing to possess when you live in upstate New York. It’s just moving scenery. It’s kind of like the equivalent of Great Danes. It’s the way you keep your grass mowed. It’s the way you keep your weed-whacking to a minimum.
I just want to make sure that the thing that I see in it initially, that I think it can be, is not just going to be a horror film and reduced to a jump here and a scream there. But that you can take something away from it.
You ought to have a perspective when you’re making a film.
Honesty is not synonymous with truth.
I’m hooked on Polanski’s films, his psychological thrillers. I love ‘Rosemary’s Baby,’ I love ‘Repulsion.’
It’s true: I don’t remember what life was like before parenthood.
Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.
We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.