"I've always felt really lucky to get to work with really great filmmakers. For me, the whole objective is just to hopefully be of service to what they want."

"You go on Instagram, and it's just not a real reflection of what people do, and how much pain people are in every day. So that's my mental change."

"My dad's more three-dimensional than Opie Taylor or Richie Cunningham. He even has a temper! He's a real person. But some people are disappointed by that."

"I definitely hope that I'm improving. If I'm not, there's a problem - I'm just coasting."

"Sometimes acting, particularly in film, can feel so contained. You need to be small and not overplay things, so it's such a relief to be able to go as far as you can go with an emotion or a feeling or a speech."

"I'm a huge fan of the animated film 'The Land Before Time' and that was one of my favourite animated films when I was growing up."

"Joe Wright is incredible and I'm a huge admirer of his work in general, but specifically his aesthetics and poeticism."

"If someone down-votes you, or you don't get a like, or someone says something not cool, you project onto it the person or the people who have hurt you the most in life."

"The other thing I've been discussing with friends is: when you're born do you start at a zero, or five?"

"I feel like it's a subversive thing [a certain body type to admire] which keeps women preoccupied with something that doesn't matter, and takes up a lot of space, and prevents people from what they're meant to be doing."

"I have nothing nice to say about Chris Pratt, of course. He's probably the greatest hero of our time in real life, honestly."

"The ability to play pretend is something that everyone has access to; you see little kids doing it."

"You do your best [ on auditions] and sometimes you win 'em over and sometimes you don't."

"For me personally, I don't go onto Twitter or Facebook, my hubby helps me out because sometimes I'm concerned that I'll see something that will upset me, and I don't have a way to work it out with that person."

"The "Village "did a lot for me, of course, because it was my first movie."

"I've never, ever, in my entire life, been upset at a casting choice."

"It's really about connecting to your own humanity and your own behaviors, and getting to a level of self-awareness so that you can have perspective and step outside of yourself and transform and become another person."

"I'm sure there's a range, but I think everyone can pretend."

"What I wasn't used to was being in front of the camera."

"Social media is a performance like any other form of entertainment, and acknowledging that is important."

"I have very vivid dreams and nightmares, and my biggest fear is of some kind of dystopian future where we're advanced in every way except in our humanity."

"That is one of the hardest things I have ever had to do in my life, running through the jungle in heels. Because also, mud was often times three feet deep, and that was full on for sure."

"What it's done for me is highlight the fact that we need to lean into the cartoon universe of social media."

"Girls can do anything, for sure. Even running in the mud in heels."

"I'm definitely not very insecure, but I have perfectionist tendencies, and I'll want things to be a certain way."

"I have an amino acid missing that you can only get from certain kinds of eggs. So, I've been eating a few eggs."

"I'm drawn toward filmmakers who have a very distinctive voice. I really appreciate people who push themselves and, therefore, push the medium forward."

"I'm not a strong cook. I can do the crockpot; that's about it."

"As far as I'm concerned: Chris Pratt for president! He'd save us."

"My parents have been together since they were 16 years old."

"My mom always told me one of the reasons that she was really happy in her life was that, if Dad never worked again, she was confident that she could support the family."

"When I was grounded, I wouldn't be allowed to go on set. That's how much I loved it."

"Joss Whedon is a hero of mine, and what he's done for women in film and television, particularly when it comes to writing female roles that would typically go to a man, is awesome."

"Of course any kind of film process has ups and downs and days where you're stuck and have breakthroughs."

"Writing 'when you find me,' it really exposed me to a way of putting together a story I hadn't thought of."

"After I did 'Orchids,' I enrolled back in film school and did a million and a half workshops and worked with great professors and people, trying to hopefully get better."

"My first time I directed a play was 'No Exit,' a play set in a subway."

"I'm very sturdy and very proud of it."

"I did karate for years and years and years."

"It's not that I'm a serious person; I'm playful and stuff like that, but I take characters very seriously and the work very seriously."

"I'm very conventional compared to my parents."

"I will never reach the success that my dad has felt."

"I try to go with the flow and have faith that everything is going to work out."

"I've done a lot of weird, otherworldly characters, and I think I'm at my best when I'm kind of in the woods running around screaming or depressed."

"I stepped in for Nicole Kidman in 'Dogville' when she left that film."

"You can't raise kids alone, you can't heal alone... you really need a community."

"Getting to have an opportunity to tell a story that is about mental illness and how it affects one's self and one's community was really something that really meant a lot to me."

"My friends knew I was obsessed with these 'Twilight' boys because I love a dangerous love story."

"Tom Hanks is fantastic - he is one of my dad's good friends, and he's very warm and funny."