We all have our essential nature. If you're good with numbers, you don't even know you're good with numbers because that's how your mind works.

I grew up with my grandfather [Elia Kazan] being famous in a way that's not like Beyoncé, but famous in a relative way. It made me feel weird about the way that we treat people that are famous, and it made me feel weird about fame in general.

I would not wear any clothes that had a brand name on them, and I only read books that were canonical.

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 hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!

I wouldn't wear makeup, and I didn't like to let boys open the door for me because I felt like it was sexist.

I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.