Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

It's worth paying attention to the roles that are sort of dictated to us and that we don't have to fit into those roles. We can be anybody we wanna be.

Our culture has a tendency to pigeonhole people and to try to tear down anybody who's breaking out of our comfort zone. That's why we get into these cultural ruts that end up being destructive prejudices. But breaking out of that comfort zone is the most rewarding thing you can do, in your life. I do my best to push myself, when I can.

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!

I find the voice is what I look for first and foremost with just about every character I play.

There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.

You see a woman on a screen and you reduce her to just a thing, a sex object.