Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?

I'm very much an admirer of people who are reaching for things and trying to survive.

We worked with Jean-Marc [Vallée] [on Big Little Lies] in terms of finding [style]. Because when you have five women, you're trying to find how they each dress and how they present themselves to the world.

The thing I'm not good with is mediocrity, when someone isn't really trying to reach something.

Sometimes your mistakes are you biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst thing that's happening to you can somehow turn around and be the greatest opportunity.

Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.

And I am standing in front of my mother, and my whole life I have wanted to make my mother proud. And now I'm going to make my daughter proud.