It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can’t do because we feed ourselves so much denial.
The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.
If there’s anything that I’ve always said about myself is that to me, it’s much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I’ve grown up loving and admiring.
I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
I love women. I worship women. Don’t want to be any other woman but myself.
I find it really frustrating when people go, “I want to be famous and glamorous like you.” It’s hard for me not to have a bad thought when someone says that to me, since if there’s anything this business is not, is glamorous. It’s only glamorous for maybe five minutes every now and then.
Fathers, sons, brothers, men everywhere: Your legacy will not perish if you take your partner’s surname, or she keeps hers.
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.
I find it really frustrating when people go, “I want to be famous and glamorous like you.”
Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We’re narcissistic.
I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I’m a kid myself.
I like to look strong and commanding.
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.
Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.
I’m so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
I’m a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I’d want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It’s so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there – and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
I have a hyper personality.
I knew who Leonard Nimoy was, and that he embodied what Star Trek meant to all the fans. But it wasn’t until I started doing my research for this movie, and started going to fan sites, that I began to fall in love with these characters.
I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.