I've never, ever, in my entire life, been upset at a casting choice.

Where I'm like,"no, I won't have that piece of bread, I'll have the veg." There's a different approach mentally that you have when you're in a safe space. Our body awareness in the West is ridiculous.

I definitely hope that I'm improving. If I'm not, there's a problem - I'm just coasting.

Right now as an artist, what I want to do is be a part of works that are unignorable. I couldn't be less interested in how people receive it, honestly. As long as it's unignorable.

I definitely managed to do different kinds of things. My focus is usually who the director is, because at the end of the day the director is the storyteller, what the movie is all about. I don't want to participate in something that I don't think is constructive storytelling.

The ability to play pretend is something that everyone has access to; you see little kids doing it.

The Village did a lot for me, of course, because it was my first movie.