I don’t think there’s any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills.
Setting goals can blind you to opportunities. You might be trying to get to point C. When opportunity B comes, you don’t even look at it because you’re going straight to C.
I was 12 when my parents told me we were moving to Lebanon. I remember thinking, ‘Leba-who?’ I had absolutely no concept of the place.
I really don’t make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role.
I like complicated characters.
I have always been interested in the concept of ruin.
I have a very well organized closet.
I find fear is a great motivator to work hard.
There’s something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.
The tragic element of a character is always intriguing I think.
I’m happy to report that everybody whose face I’ve wanted to punch on Earth has already been punched.
Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene.
I’ve never had a clear road map. When things come along, I benefit.
I’ve never felt like my career has been on fire.
She is such a scene-stealer. She’s got these lashes and big eyes, and when she walks on to the set everybody just says “ooh.”
My grandfather had two boys, my uncle had three boys, my dad had me and my two brothers, each of my brothers have had two boys. Then something happened with the chromosomal experiment and suddenly I’ve got three girls.
You learn more about a person from the people around that person than you do from the person themselves. We all have our own ideas of who we are that may or may not be justified, and you can really find out a heck of a lot more accurately from the people around an individual.
I went door-to-door selling cable television subscriptions when I was in college. Not to date myself, but cable was just coming on. I had terrible territories, and they would give me $25, if I got somebody to let them come and just put the little cord in their house.
You don’t get to pick your partners in families; you get assigned a seat at the table.
There’s no harmony in most people in a way, and I’m attracted to it, and I think it makes for good storytelling.
The irony is that you can’t use real rain to make movies.