3 December 2020 Vera Farmiga I can’t get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
3 December 2020 Vera Farmiga It’s a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it’s man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they’re two different things.
3 December 2020 Vera Farmiga Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.
3 December 2020 Vera Farmiga I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family’s faith.
3 December 2020 Vera Farmiga Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.
3 December 2020 Vera Farmiga You earn very little money on independent films and I’m the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.
3 December 2020 Vera Farmiga There really are three types of ‘religious’ movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
3 December 2020 Vera Farmiga Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.
3 December 2020 Vera Farmiga Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.
3 December 2020 Vera Farmiga There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.
3 December 2020 Vera Farmiga I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.
3 December 2020 Vera Farmiga I don’t have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
3 December 2020 Vera Farmiga I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion it’s too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.
3 December 2020 Vera Farmiga Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You’ve got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I’ve got my Freud mixed up. It’s just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.
3 December 2020 Vera Farmiga I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.
