I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.

I feel like developing the muscle of my imagination became a way to survive reality.

Early rejections are really tough, especially when all of your friends who you went to school with now have legitimate jobs, are getting married, having children, buying real estate, being adults. And you're still trying to figure out how to make a living doing the thing you think you love, but you're not even sure yet because you haven't even done it. It was a long road of risk and treachery.

Because we're watching so many movies and are consumed by so many stories, science fiction lets you do something a bit fresh and that hasn't been seen before.

A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.

I totally love my job, and I wake up every day basically thinking about how can I do my job better. It never feels like a job. It's hard, and it's exhausting sometimes, but it never feels like - I would do this even if they didn't pay me to do it. That's a pretty amazing feeling.

So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.