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.'

It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

Where people really base their principles has nothing to do with the color of someone's skin, it has to do with money and their class.

What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else - when you want to be another person.

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.

Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off.

Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.