I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything.

What I like about acting is that you have to be super, super present in the moment. That's not something that comes to me naturally. But if you take the long view on anything, nothing can really affect you or knock you down. It's like, we're here for a blink, we're just the human experiment, one of many experiments going on in the universe, and it's interesting, it's beautiful by fits and starts, but I can't take it that personally. I'm just one of billions of people attempting.

I think I am looking as an actor to find ways to push myself into places I haven't been before as a human being.

The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If Im afraid of it, then I want to do it.

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

The problem is if you play enough of parts in films that are sort of more financial products than anything or films in which the girl is a thankless, thoughtless, underwritten character along the way, you're no longer the person who had something fresh or vital to offer. I think it really does start to diminish some part of you, to put yourself through things you don't really want to be doing.

I believe in what science fiction can do, which is it can set up simple rules that it has to follow to try to illuminate something about the present that is somewhat invisible to us.