If you put the right things into the universe, the right things will come to you.

For a child actor, its a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.

There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going.

You never know how things are going to fit. So, you don't count your eggs until they hatch. You can't pre-project that. I mean, this was literally like a childhood fantasy of mine, to be able to work in action. You know, growing up on Disney films like Pocahontas and wanting to enter into that, or Aladdin and how he's fighting - being your own hero, being your own heroine is like every one's dream.

There's so much more (to say) about being young and being a woman, but I feel like not a lot of those stories are being told, so you have to grab onto what ever small truths you can find and present it in the most honest way you can.

Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.

Some locations are so terrible, you can't even breathe, and you still have to act.