Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty, and for young girls in particular, that type of pressure breeds insecurities.

I always try and learn as much as I can from different departments on a film set.

Everybody who is an actor has been acting since they were three.

Any time you get a role that's a young person, that resembles what it's like to be a teenager, I always kind of jump at it.

I like to be absorbed in what my character's doing.

What I like about film is it explores imperfections.

I really loved it because it really informed his way of seeing my character and the story. If you look closely he always had this metaphor of an egg, of a little chick pecking her way out of a shell, and in one scene in the kitchen there are all these white plates on a wall and then in the middle there is a yellow plate so even that looks like an egg. And a lot of the furniture was almost sculpted in that way as well. It was really cool to see that.