It's very scary to allow the world to see you.

We're in a different time right now, and I think we're ready to see a different type of female hero.

One of the reasons I love making movies is because it's an opportunity to share with the world a different way of being or a different way of living or seeing the world. If it's something you've already seen before, if I have too many reference points for it, then it's not exciting for me to make.

Whenever you want something that you're not going to get, suddenly the whiney 3-year-old comes out in you.

I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different creative ways. It gave me the opportunity to travel and play music, so it was good for me.

When I take on a character, it's a sacrifice. There's something that you give up every time. I want to become these characters, and I want to be mysterious, but if you know too much about me, it's not going to be too much fun watching me play a character, because it's just going to be me with a mask on, instead of you believing what the mask is.

It's really hard to see yourself and to recognize that you are a human being like everybody else. You just think everybody's judging you.