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

It doesn't happen all the time, but in the moments where you really lose yourself and you fall into this character, it's like time travel.

We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we live in, male or female, you're this age, that age, this is your job, this is not your job, everything is about getting boxed in. I think we accept a lot of those boxes, that labeling, and the way that we perceive the world, but what even is perception? It all seems pretty flexible to me.

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

I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives.

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

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