Somebody brought up the idea, what if we went to New Orleans and helped down there in reconstruction and stuff? Five minutes later, we took a vote; unanimous decision. There we go.

They show you this, oh, here's a house here destroyed. Here's a house here destroyed. What you don't see is that neighborhood after neighborhood after neighborhood, and every single house is destroyed.

These houses were flooded up to about the second story, if they had a second story, so everything was trashed. Everything that was in there had to come out.

Leaving a lot of movie sets, I've gone home and said, 'How come my hands are clean?' I should finish something and go home with dirt in my fingernails, because then you really feel that you've done something.

Unless you're flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what's on the other side? It brings up issues of God, or no God. How does he play into this? Or he, or she, or it? How does it all play into this?

Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it.