Your director is your everything and you devote yourself to them and you want to help create their vision.

If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences.

Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval. I was very happy to stop wearing them.

A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.

I think people who aren't in film experience that when they hear their voice on an answering machine or something.

Guys have guy/girl relationships so that they can have their own guy thing plus the sensitive thing with the girl.

The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering.