I always hate speculation on the news, so I don't want to be somebody who speculates.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become.

Don't fit in, don't sit still, don't ever try to be less than what you are...

It's very important that people understand that for refugees to come into the USA is very difficult. What upsets me about the whole situation is that people don't know the difference between a migrant and a refugee; they don't have respect for what people are coming from - the people who against it - and they have completely forgotten this is what built our country, the diversity. When it is put forward that masses of people are dangerous, and the actual numbers and the situation are proven to be completely the opposite of the way they're presented publicly, it's horrible.

I think I was probably able to flip characters in my head as if I was playing different roles in order to write the different people because you kind of have to be one person, and inhabit him and write from his voice and be her and write her voice. So I think that helped.

Over 20 million children of conflict are out of school. Education is often forgotten.

I'd love to have a great relationship with my father. And unfortunately... I don't.