The theater should always be a safe space.

It was a real dream come true just to get the job [in Moana], and yeah, and we sort of got right to work.

These New York City streets get colder, I shoulder every burden every disadvantage I've learned to manage. I don't have a gun to brandish. I walk these streets famished.

I have two wonderful, supportive and very practical parents who were like, you're really talented and really creative. You should be a lawyer because there's a safe path there. And I knew that I was never going to be a lawyer. And I knew that I wanted to make movies, and I wanted to write shows.

I think if you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere, have them be an observer kind of all the time. And that's a great way to make a writer.

My power of speech, unimpeachable. Only 19 but my mind is older.

I probably shouldn't brag, but dag I amaze and astonish.