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.

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.

Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.

I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.

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

When you come out to L.A. to make movies or to do this kind of work, everybody is coming out on their own and you leave your tribe behind. Then, it's a question of, that was your tribe by blood, and now, what is the tribe that you're making by choice or by what you think is important? I think we were having that experience, so somehow the cult world seemed really compelling.

A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.