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

There are people a lot smarter than me investigating nature versus nurture who would have a lot to say about that, but I think it's an enormous privilege to be born into a family where my parents had enough time to read to me and listen to my stories and foster my imagination. It's a privilege to have time to investigate your imagination. And not to have, like, an amount of stress on you as a kid that prevents you from maturing creatively.

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

I have a lot more writing experience than Paul Dano has, so to be able to put that experience to use in exercising his vision was almost an acting exercise: How would I write if I were Paul? When I look at it, it feels so completely his, but it's also mine.

I'm not that interested in writing for myself. That's not where my impetus as a writer comes from.

I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.