The more time you invest in something, potentially, the deeper the emotional impact of the climax. It's true of relationships, too.

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.

I think the first thing I thought when I got out to L.A. was just: Oh, if I want to act, I have to find a different way to go about it because the parts for girls are as dispiriting as the banking jobs. You have to really be willing to invent, I guess, a different path for yourself.

Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.

I think we're in this exciting moment of Internet streaming storytelling, and it's anybody's guess what that is or what it means. It can take on any form. That's what's so exciting about the time we're in; these filmmakers are coming in and letting the story tell itself as it wants to be told.

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.

My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics. I'm not one of those people who can just spout off numbers for things, if numbers are thrown at me.