The best lesson my mom taught me was how to be scrappy.

Over the course of my career, I've had the great fortune of working with some incredible filmmakers who have protected me and inspired me and taught me what an honor it is to work in film.

I'm so lucky to have been raised the way I have, because my parents believed that everyone had the right to their own feelings, opinions, and existence; as long as they weren't harming others, you had to defend those rights.

Without question, I wake every night five times.

Whatever you do, don’t wake up at 65 years old and think about what you should have done with your life.

So far I've done two films that have basically been about television because I know that world.

I had to stop going to auditions thinking, 'Oh, I hope they like me.' I had to go in thinking I was the answer to their problem.