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.

Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.

I think maybe I was a shepherdess in a past life.

I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

I don’t necessarily need Hollywood.

I’ve always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it’s not the lines you say that are important – it’s what exists between the lines. What I’m compelled by most is that transparency...

I love to be surprised.

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...

I’m part wood nymph. I require mountains and warm, dense patches of moss to thrive.

It’s true: I don’t remember what life was like before parenthood.

I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.

I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He’s the best father my children could have.

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,...

The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.

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...

When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them: my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a lover, as a daughter.

It’s a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it’s man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they’re two different things.

I don’t have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.

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.

I look for struggle in the roles I choose – struggle and perseverance.

There’s no wrong way to experience a film.

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.