I've been transformed by stories, and I think that storytelling is definitely sacred. I take it very seriously because my life has been changed, whether it was a movie, a play, a piece of writing, poetry, a painting.

I love that in this movie [Everybody Loves Somebody], you almost want to go and hang out with this family.

I felt really strongly about this script [ Everybody Loves Somebody] because, like you said, it's a very specific way of life.

Romantic comedies, if done badly, can be catastrophic.

I should have asked for credit - but he has no idea how amazing it is that a character that was written as a boy can be equally written for a girl. It's like you said, just write a character as if it were a man, and then turn it and make it into a woman. It's like, we're human beings, after all.

[Rhimes and Pete Nowalk] have definitely, from the pilot [of How to Get Away with Murder], brought forth a woman who is unapologetically herself, unapologetically flawed, and is as vulnerable as she is powerful. I'm grateful to be in that family.

There's not enough of those inclusive projects where I feel like I'm interpreting a human being and not just a statistic or a nationality.