People go to the cinema to be moved; they wanna laugh, they wanna cry, they wanna feel something deeply, especially if they're not feeling deeply in their own lives.

Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.

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

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.

Maybe the best definition of what a great partnership or great love is when people make each other grow in a better direction than they would have grown on their own.

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.

That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.