I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity.

With the young generation, there are even more women than men making movies right now.

I studied psychology in school, and the best psychology is in literature. It's so much easier to understand a character than a theory. You can recognize yourself—or other people—in a different way.

Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.

Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.

Grab the good people around you. Don't let them go.

I really hate being self-conscious—and being conscious of being self-conscious