In high school, I was on the youth advisory council for the Mayor's Office of Los Angeles, and that was kind of my first experience in the bureaucratic system. We tried to get things done, and nobody was really interested in getting anything done.

Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.

If you feel like you can't actually do the right thing and you're headed off into the field of justice, maybe there's no point in going into it.

I feel like until you show every side, you're not doing the gender justice.

There's no sense that you can knock on your neighbor's door or be part of a local community group, and that's part of your responsibility as a human being.

In elementary and high school, I never considered acting as a profession.

You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story.