Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.

I can scarcely stand to have a manicure. I have to have them because you don't want to look like a disgusting human being - it's self-care and it has to happen, but I get very restless.

I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.

You can watch someone on-stage cry and cry - but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.

I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.