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.

One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.

When you're reading Chekov, you're in this world that he's created. I never would have created that world. I don't know anything about that time period or that setting or those groups of people or what those experiences were, but oh my gosh, it's amazing to daydream on it and put yourself there.

Being a waitress can be a very brutal job sometimes, and I remember during the training, the person said to me, "The redder the lips, the better the tips," and that was like the only advice she gave me.

I think one thing for sure that you learn the more films that you make is how important it is to choose your collaborators.

For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro.

Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.