I think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical.

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.

A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.

I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we're living is even sustainable.

I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.

So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.

Is there anything worse than being called the 'It Girl?' By definition, there will be a new one in two weeks.