The fabric of my life is under my skin; [but] it's definitely not something that comes up in a conscious way when I read material. I have an incredible relationship with my mom, so I'm fascinated by mothers who do not have that. But I've never done anything that resembled my life. People always jump to that conclusion, and I wish life were that simple, but it's not.

I've always known I wanted a family.

I think good filmmaking is when you really hold the mirror up truthfully, and you don't angle it and you don't hide things with smoke and mirrors.

Hey, I'm a girl, and we like to play dress-up.

It's so great as an actor to get the opportunity to do something that's incredibly truthful.

I'd be unbelievably wrong to say there isn't such a thing as the right place, right time-luck.

Pride comes from a place of real acknowledgment that somebody's actually living their life for themselves, and I want to be that example for my son.