I always collect a bunch of images for every film that I do, that reminds me of an essence of the character, or the time that they live in, or what they're experiencing.

I like characters who remind me of someone I know.

Fame is useful in certain ways, because it helps you get more roles.

With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy.

It was good but it was just a tiny bit uncomfortable because it was a day of lying in the bushes and I think I got a major muscle thing going on there! But it was good. It was fun. That is one of the things you get to do in film that you don't do, or that I don't do, in real life. I can't speak for Dermot [Mulroney]! But it was fun.

It's really rare to get a teenage role that resembles something of what it's like to be a young person, that isn't a cliché or a stereotype.

You are relying on a waiting on other people in acting and films, so to be able to have something that I have full creative control over is really very therapeutic.