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.
Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.
Sometimes music helps. If I feel that it’s bogus, I’ll literally just call myself out on camera and say that it’s dishonest. You do whatever it takes.
In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is ‘My god is greater than your god,’ and we’re fighting in the name of our god, we have to find a way to peaceably coexist, spiritually.
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.
There’s no wrong way to experience a film.
No role is more challenging, rewarding and inspiring than my real-life role as a mom and a wife.
The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, ‘How am I similar to this person and how am I different?’
In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.
Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You’ve got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I’ve got my Freud mixed up. It’s just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.
I’m someone who can sit in a Buddhist temple, and I can sit with Pentecostals or with Orthodox Jews, and I still feel like I am in tune with all of them.
I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.
Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.
When you encounter sophistication in the creation of a female character, you thank the writers and you claim it.
I grew up in a Christian home. The strictness comes with religion in general. Whether you grew up Jewish or Orthodox Jewish or Muslim, there are certain rules and regulations. But my parents instilled in me the importance of defining God for yourself.
I don’t have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He’s the best father my children could have.
You earn very little money on independent films and I’m the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.
Just because I’m telling a story about a woman losing faith is not my rebellion against what I grew up in. If anything, it really affected the way I approached the story, and in fact, approach everything. I don’t judge my characters.