The main thing for me is just the length of time it takes to make a movie. It's at least a year of just talking about it, talking about it with yourself or your director or your other castmates or the press, so you just want to make sure it's a film that although you initially feel this pull or this drive to it, you don't really have the answers to why you're drawn to it. But it's more about not knowing the answers to certain questions but wanting to go on the journey of discovery to find the answers.

Surrounding myself with women of different backgrounds and on different paths and in different stages of their lives has become so valuable to me.

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

For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school. For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going.

Lately, I've been getting too much attention with the Met Gala and work going so well that I try to find rejection in my day. I'll seek out someone on the street or at the farmers' market and ask for something where I know they'll say no. No one likes rejection, but it's real. And I don't want to lose that feeling.

I was 3 when I told my mom that I knew what my dharma was and that I wanted to be an actor.

I started acting in second grade - my first role was in the Thanksgiving play. I was the Indian chasing the turkey. All the other mom's encouraged my mom to get me into acting after that.