I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.

Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.

I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.

There's nobody on this earth who can tell you that what you're feeling is wrong. They can tell you it's different to what they're feeling.

I'm a girl from Queens. I've never gone, 'What am I doing today? Oh, I'm gonna grab a gun and learn how to use it.'

I find it really frustrating when people go, "I want to be famous and glamorous like you."

I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.