As you get older and you progress in your career, you start to want to have more control over things and you have ideas.

I don't need to be crazy rich and crazy famous. I would just like to keep going.

In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.

What you learn in any acting class is how to make a fool of yourself and enjoy things and get out of your head.

You have to find something you relate to in every character.

I've always just shown up to set and said the lines, [but] I want to help develop scripts and help cast and help bring a visual tone to something.

I wanted to be a writer for a while. I was an excellent child writer. I won multiple poetry contests. I was published at age three - I think that was more about novelty than my immense talent.