My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.

The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.

I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11.

When you get to play with the big boys, your game improves drastically.