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

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

There are so many filmmakers who are so talented, and actors and writers who work so hard, and it's really hard to let your work enter the world.

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

I think movies do change people's hearts.

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

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.