I think one thing for sure that you learn the more films that you make is how important it is to choose your collaborators.

So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.

Having spent a lot of time trying to figure out screenwriting, I do feel moved and I want to try to write good roles for women of every age.

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

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.

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.

I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.