I knew I was happy when I was dancing.

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

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.

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.

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

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.