I come from a background of independent films.

It's hard to tell what people realize. Everybody's different and has a different understanding of the difference in times.

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.

Ultimately, it's a really brave thing to do what makes you happy as opposed to what the norm, or the social norm is, and that's a very important thing for people to remember, especially young women.

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.

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

In our world, we have so many ways we can escape with technology, like TV, Facebook, computers, text messaging and all that.