People feel emboldened to say things on the Internet they wouldn't in person.

I think that you need to balance a critique of feminine, patriarchal beauty ideals while simultaneously understanding how they can make you safe, and they can make you feel safe, and they can open up certain doors for you that would have been closed.

I think that it should be every woman's choice, depending on how she feels comfortable. I can't think of any objective reason why you should wear makeup unless it makes you feel good.

When we say 'trans is beautiful' or 'being trans is the best,' that is a truth we created for ourselves that's clearly not true in every signal we get from the world around us.

Dysphoria will always be a painful place.

What's infuriating is when cis people think celebrating me is celebrating transness.

When you're making an independent film, there is no guarantee that anyone is going to see it, ever.

Expectations are kind of lethal for art, I think.

I'm very conscious and weary of the hype economy and the way people build things up just to tear them down.

I'm a much better actor as a girl than I was as a guy.

There have been moments where I've had to question the way I've used social media and change it. Not because anything was wrong or right but because my needs had changed, and my perspective had changed.

I think it's an oversimplification of somebody's worth to 'cancel' them. We're so quick to cancel but also so quick to lift somebody up as 'the queen,' 'the mom,' 'the dad,' 'the god.'

I think the skin is the most important part of a strong makeup look, and if you take care of that, the rest will follow.

I get a facial maybe a couple of times a year.

There are no trans roles, and if there are, they go to Jared Leto or Eddie Redmayne or Elle Fanning... Will there ever come a point where I could play a woman in a realistic, naturalistic drama and have there not be the word 'trans' in the script?

Trans folks are going to rise up for their moments and their money!

I'm really into the way sound works in film, and I did a little bit of sound design for theater in college.

I'm teaching myself how to screenplay write.

I feel like my transition, in a broader sense, began the second I left home and came to New York. Because all of a sudden, I opened myself up to options about how to be.

I prefer men who are queer. Not gay men, but queer men - guys with an open mind. Bisexual men, because they're able to understand the different elements of the body without judging that I don't conform to a certain ideal.

In an ideal world, I wouldn't have to change my body. I wouldn't have to do all this stuff. I wouldn't have to be pretty or 'feminine,' and people would respect that.

If my body can fall into the background for just a second, maybe people will start listening to what I have to say.

For me, Instagram had become a place where I could image myself the way I found myself.

My identity will always inform my experience and shape my perception. But I am an unremarkable person.