That's the beauty of being an actress, is that you hopefully get to have different roles and really stretch yourself. This is really what I've been working for a while. I've been in the business for a minute, and it's an opportunity like this that I've been really working towards.

The careers that I admire and actually try to emulate are those of Julianne Moore and Annette Bening. Those women, to me, make amazing choices. They're sexy, beautiful women, but that doesn't dictate their choices.

It's important for me to work with a strong director because I know I can go to some really deep places, I just need direction on how to get there.

When I reap the rewards, I don't even know I'm reaping them.

I do like to belong to a man.

I wanted to go into art history. Acting fell into my lap when a neighbor took pictures of me and showed them to an agent.

I liked the monsters, I liked them because I couldn't understand how something so scary could also be so good. It got me thinking as a very early age, and I had a lot of rehearsal.