And Kathy Bates has taken up directing. So like Rob, she's worked in front of the camera as well as behind it. So the depth of the conversation should be great.

I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.

I was born in front of a camera and really don't know anything else.

Doing the right thing has power.

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.

My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.