I really connected with martial arts. I'd always had a fantasy as a kid of being a ninja warrior, so it definitely answered that sort of need in my psyche, too - a need to be superpowerful.

I really want my agent to make sure they write a part in the next Airbender movie for me. I'll be really upset if I don't get to be a waterbender or something.

I've always found that it's such an emotional experience, trying to find the good parts of a bad character or the bad parts of a good character, and in the end, most of these qualities are already there inside me.

That was the action figure I was playing with. I grew up having this fantasy of being a superhero, being Princess Power.

Everybody needs to go to Mongolia just to see what it is to be a human being again.

I'm very into the japanese sensibility. Oversize coats and baggy trousers.

Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.