Randa Haines

I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound.

I've gone for long stretches without working. I remember many times peeking into my checkbook to see if any money was left.

I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.

Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.

If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.

I would never create an image for myself; I'm not that clever.