In personal conversations between director and actor, the male directors that I've worked with are just as emotional. Maybe it's because I had to start having very intimate conversations with adult men at a very young age in order to get the work, but I'm really comfortable with dudes. I mean, we push boundaries in this business in terms of getting to know people.

There's nothing stronger than a woman protecting her child

People who call me the Twilight girl and mean it. Please, pigeon hole me. That means I did it right.

I'm just going to let people watch whatever little movie they think our lives are and go for it.

Women inevitably have to work a little bit harder to be heard. Hollywood is disgustingly sexist. It's crazy.

Despite what people think, I was such a rule follower at school.

I hear actresses talking about this all the time - this idea that you sit in meetings and the studio says, "Well, you can't do that because the audience won't like that. They won't root for you. It's not sympathetic." I think that we've been served this one dish for so long that we believe that it's all that audiences want, but when we test them or throw something out there that has some truth to it, they seem to always respond.