The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If I'm afraid of it, then I want to do it.

We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we live in, male or female, you're this age, that age, this is your job, this is not your job, everything is about getting boxed in.

When you’re reading Chekov, you’re in this world that he’s created. I never would have created that world. I don’t know anything about that time period or that setting or those groups of people or what those experiences were, but oh my gosh, it’s amazing to daydream on it and put yourself there.

I think I realized very early on that you can spend a lot of time constructing a really perfect scene in final draft and just end up throwing it away because you didn’t figure out that mathematics of the story first.

I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we’re living is even sustainable.

I think movies do change people’s hearts.

I think I am looking as an actor to find ways to push myself into places I haven’t been before as a human being.

I think what’s so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.

When I’m sitting writing, I know that something works if I’ve made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.

Is there anything worse than being called the ‘It Girl?’ By definition, there will be a new one in two weeks.