I think most actors jump at the chance to do something where the camera's on them all the time.

I've definitely gotten to work with female directors, and I feel lucky because of that. I just feel like more voices should be represented.

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 don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.

I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women. I'd been thinking about what I would want to do with that if I was going to write on that theme, and one morning I woke up and Calvin and Ruby Sparks were in my head.

I don't feel like I possess a particular political intelligence, and when I read work that does, I feel like somebody else is going to have the right political thing to say. As a citizen, I feel an enormous need to respond, and immediately post-election, I felt like, What is my work worth? Should I quit what I'm doing and go work on the 2018 election now? How is what I'm putting into the world meaningful?

On a personal level, just for me in my own work, I would say the most interesting thing has been getting to work with the people that I've worked with.