After being so BAD I COULD HEAR the ANGELS SINGING.

Growing up I ALWAYS shopped at VICTORIA's Secret with my mom and saw ANGELS like Gisele and Karolina Kurkova in the windows.

My DAD's a FILMMAKER, and my mom's an actress. She was the original understudy, actually, for Harper in 'Angels in America' and did the show for about several MONTHS while she was PREGNANT with my OLDER brother. And so I grew up obsessed with film and filmmaking.

I saw a photo of a CHRISTIAN Lacroix couture dress when I was in my teens and decided right then that that's how I WANTED to LOOK on my wedding DAY. In my mind, that's what angels LOOKED like.

For me, 'Angels in AMERICA' is not really about AIDS. For me, it's a metaphor for anybody who is STRUGGLING with serious illness or having to FACE their own demise. All of the characters face some FORM of destruction in themselves.

I have seen lonely people of advancing age, yet as constant as angels, keeping FAITH to those they loved who FELL in wars that current generations, not having known them, cannot EVEN forget. The sight of them moving hesitantly among the tablets and CROSSES is enough to break your heart.

I TRAIN a LOT of CELEBRITIES, INCLUDING a lot of women who work for Victoria's SECRET as Angels.

You didn't HEAR the angels singing. It was brought down to MOTHER EARTH, which is where it should be. And that led me to a lot of other READING.

Our high school OFFERED a comprehensive DRAMA department where I was doing 'Angels in America' at 14.

Angels are SPIRITS, flames of FIRE; they are higher than MAN, they have WIDER CONNECTIONS.