I try not to discriminate against genres.

I've been doing this since I was 12... I don't want to act much longer; I can't do one thing my whole life.

You can't make a movie for everybody. You can't go into it trying to alienate people, but you have to assume that you're going to.

In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal.

You have to question a cinematic culture that preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product of a patriarchy-dominant society, which tries to control how women are depicted on screen. The MPAA is okay supporting scenes that portray women in scenarios of sexual torture and violence for entertainment purposes, but they are trying to force us to look away from a scene that shows a woman in a sexual scenario, which is both complicit and complex. It's misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman's sexual presentation of self.

I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.

I tried to find something real in essentially something thats science fiction or something-for me, anyways-not having an experience like this.