I play a lot of characters where I don't even speak in my own voice. I learned about focus and I learned to trust that things can work when they're not heightened and that it's interesting when things are pared down.

I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.

I don't like feeling hemmed in and I don't like feeling that I'm repeating myself.

I learned that I was able to focus. I've always thought of myself as somebody who is like either it's there or it isn't there. I really worked at this, and I focused, and I was able to replace self-doubt with focus. That was something new for me to say self-doubt is there, but it does not need to be in the front row. You can ask it to take a back seat and replace that front row seat with focus.

I don't make a lot of mistakes, honestly. I'm an A-student, I'm an Ivy Leaguer. I need those things.

There are so many different stories. You can choose to tell them, or not, but they certainly have the right to exist

I want to make every kind of movie that I can make. I don't really care if they're big or small.