We want to give them some sense of normalcy, give them anything that doesn't look like a pile of debris on the side of the road.

The outpouring of human kindness has been incredible. Seriously, without it we wouldn't have anything.

It's still devastated. It looks like bombs have gone off here. The devastation is so vast that it's going to take years to rebuild.

My house was built in 1986 and it is flat with the street. When we moved in there were no houses next to us. Now they just built one and are building another higher than our house. I'm going to be in a valley, a flood zone.

I don't think I'm a flaming radical.

I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.