'Basmati Blues' deals with a great social issue, GMOs, but it's told through love and song and dance.
Acting isn't like being an athlete. There's no real quantifiable measure. It's just a bunch of people feeling things.
Anything that keeps me off balance is vital.
As an adult, there are technical aspects of filmmaking you understand, like having to pick up a cup on the same line every time.
As much as I love acting, I just want to be a healthy person.
For me, 'Room' is an opportunity to relive an aspect of my childhood that I hadn't put a ton of thought into.
For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school.
For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going.
Girls in this industry sabotage one another.
Growing up, I just loved movies. It was how I saw the world, which I wanted to learn more about.
I always felt like reality was a bizarre place, and everybody was really good at being normal, and I didn't know how to do it.
I can be whoever I want. I can feel however I want.
I can't tell you how many times I quit only to realize that when the work has been your life, you don't really have a life without it.
I didn't go to prom - I was homeschooled.
I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different creative ways. It gave me the opportunity to travel and play music, so it was good for me.
I'm just a person. I'm not anything!
I'm competitive with myself.
I have no problem talking about how hard it's been, how broke I've been, and how broke I was not even that long ago.
I know what my dharma is I'm supposed to be an actor.
To find the courage to do what I want to do for myself has been hard.
I'm not a gourmet. I just like the planet.
I'm just not in a place in my life where I worry about something unnecessarily.
I hope to direct at some point, but I don't feel the pressure to rush it. I want to really know what it is that I'm doing.
Who would I be in 'Game of Thrones?' I love Brienne.
If you're in somebody's head for 12 hours a day for four weeks, it's like your brain actually wires itself to start thinking that way.
I'm always interested in whatever I can do to not look at my phone.
