Part of the challenge of being a girl living in the 21st Century, looking back, the danger is to not judge your character by your own standards.

I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period. I think that when you're close with a sibling, especially a sister, it's a relationship unlike any other.

I grew up in LA, and I don't think I've seen LA onscreen in a way that felt real to me. There are definitely movies, but they are few and far between. I wanted to see a movie that was set in LA that wasn't about the film industry. LA is such a lonely place to be alone. In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafés, you can talk to people. In LA, no one talks to each other, you're in your house, you're in your car, even when you take walks there's no one on the street.

And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

When we do something we're not proud of, a lot of people don't want to look at that, people may say "what people don't know won't hurt them."

I think, a lot of times, directors assume that whatever they get from you the first time, whether it be at an audition or on set, is all that you can bring.

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.