Because we're watching so many movies and are consumed by so many stories, science fiction lets you do something a bit fresh and that hasn't been seen before.

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

I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.

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.

I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything.

I feel like success to me is about feeling like I have done something in storytelling, where I've gotten close to articulating something intangible that I'm feeling, and I think I get closer every time, but I don't know that I've done that yet.

The most intoxicating thing about being an actor is to surrender to a story that you never would have come up with.