Working with children is a whole other ball game. They're like little animals. You have to keep the camera turned on them all the time. Sometimes it takes a 41-minute take to get one sentence out in a believable way.
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 don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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 that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.
Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.
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.
I think maybe I was a shepherdess in a past life.
I'm part wood nymph. I require mountains and warm, dense patches of moss to thrive.
The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.
I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.
Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.
I'm hooked on Polanski's films, his psychological thrillers. I love 'Rosemary's Baby,' I love 'Repulsion.'
We are all seekers in some way. There are those of us who think they have all the answers and there are those of us who may never get an answer.
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?'
Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.
I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.
I was a Ukrainian folk dancer in my teens, and I toured the country in 1991, shortly before the break-up of the Soviet Union.
I'm saying that the depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.
