I understand the value of humor and I do believe laughter is a good medicine. - Melissa Leo

I think being a female actor makes it more difficult in exactly the ways that any female on the planet finds the difficulty of our gender. There’s a huge misunderstanding about who we are and how we operate, a lot because of the way women are depicted in film and television.

It’s a judgment about the character, and no, you can’t come into the character judging them as you’re playing them. That’s the film-maker’s job to choose the tone in which the character is seen.

I just want a straight-up truth,.I don’t need a lot of compliments on what’s working, I probably know that it’s working.