I can tell you that, you know, when I went to my first movie premiere, it was my own movie, and I wore the best jeans I had and my favorite top. You know, I made sure my hair had some wave in it because I braided it the night before myself.

What happens between action and cut for me is a blur, I go almost into a whiteout, and then I see the film and I'm like, "Oh that's what I did? Cool!"

You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or what have you.

When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough.

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

For me, I don't even like to promote my films but I have to because it's in the fine print of my contract.

Every film is its own experience, its own planet, its own family. It seems infinite when you're working on it, and then it's suddenly very finite, and it's done.