When I moved to New York, I feel like a lot of things widened within my perspective and as I spend some time here - as everyone does when they're that age or a young person - [you] figure out your own ideals or figure out the way you fit into society a little bit more than you did before.

Even the creative things feel mathematic, almost.

I learned to understand the distance a character can be from yourself and how important rehearsal can be to creating a person that feels like a person that isn't you.

I find it really weird that sexuality is still so taboo in films and violence isn't. It really bewilders me.

It's hard to do things like auditions, because you don't want to put weeks of work into just an audition.

Gun violence is almost promoted onscreen in these huge blockbusters and then sex is still so shocking. But I also can understand that people find it uncomfortable, which I think is cool.

I really do like working very closely with a director and developing characters.