Tilda Swinton is a great example of a person who completely disappears into a role.

As the lead of a movie, you really set the tone off-camera as well, and that's a really big responsibility.

I spent my whole adolescence, when you just want to be accepted, looking much younger than everyone else.

Tilda Swinton is a great example of a person who completely disappears into a role.

I think I am an actress and I'm artistic and I love spontaneity and all of that, but I just decided really early on that if I didn't also try to ground myself I would probably end up like this character of Laura in A Little Help , or like so many young people in Hollywood, sort of go off the rails. So I'm pretty attached to my routines and my grounded ways.

I always worry that people are going to be very confused; sometimes timelines get confused with how movies get made. So when I say, "Oh, I made this movie when I was going through a divorce," people think, "Oh no! She's pregnant with a child and divorced?"

I'm a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year's resolutions went.