Joe Wright is incredible and I'm a huge admirer of his work in general, but specifically his aesthetics and poeticism.

On the spectrum of imagination, there are people who are more imaginative than others - I guess some kids are hardcore pretenders and have imaginary friends for years and other kids play and they have fun, but it's not quite as specific like that.

You do your best [ on auditions] and sometimes you win 'em over and sometimes you don't.

You go on Instagram, and it's just not a real reflection of what people do, and how much pain people are in every day. So that's my mental change.

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters

When folks get to the best of their profession, people are like, "Who am I to give a critique to this individual who's reached mastery?".

Sometimes acting, particularly in film, can feel so contained. You need to be small and not overplay things, so it's such a relief to be able to go as far as you can go with an emotion or a feeling or a speech.