There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better.

I feel extraordinarily peaceful when I'm watching the sun set.

I think just in general there's a bunch of films that mattered to me that didn't reach their potential, and on some level you have to assume responsibility for that. And I think over the years that gets difficult.

The most significant piece of advice my father gave me early on about acting was, don't get caught acting. Really believe in what you're doing and then commit to it. Even if it feels uncomfortable, even if you feel that you're gonna look like an ass. It's all acting, but find the truth in a moment as opposed to just pretending you have and rather than trying to act your way out of it.

Some days I'm in better control and can navigate my way through stuff, and other days, not so much.

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

Romania is an interesting place because I think it has been abused, on so many different levels.