I started acting in second grade – my first role was in the Thanksgiving play. I was the Indian chasing the turkey. All the other mom’s encouraged my mom to get me into acting after that.
I had a tough time fitting in, as I guess most kids do. I felt like school was kind of a grand opportunity to figure yourself out and to figure out what you wanted.
I know how to have a conversation, but I’ve never done improv. I’ve never taken improv classes.
I think that fashion is very important for me and I think that it’s a wonderful means of self-expression.
I think it starts to feel really redundant when you start to do something the same way over and over again. I don’t think it’s good to become so dependent on a certain writing process.
I usually get my lyrics when I let my mind wander, when you’re not really awake, but not yet fully asleep. I keep an open notebook by my bed and then just write whatever comes to me.
There’s obviously something that feels very good about being with a new filmmaker who’s very excited, but I also think there’s something very comforting in a director who’s been around a few times. Both have their pros and cons.
I think that usually I’m just drawn to something that’s different from something that I’ve done previously. Whatever makes me feel something. Whatever makes me excited and connected to it.
Surrounding myself with women of different backgrounds and on different paths and in different stages of their lives has become so valuable to me.
I think the interesting aspect of life is that you’re always sort of in the middle. You’re never the youngest and you’re never the oldest.
I was home-schooled ’cause I wanted to be an actor. I would spend all day watching movies, trying to get through calculus.
The experience of making a movie, you start to see it everywhere. It’s just this amazing mechanism that your brain does because it just so badly wants to be helpful and keep all the information that you need as accessible as possible.
Sometimes you pick up on the myth and it’s just an accident. I think it comes naturally out of people, and some people are aware of it.
There is beauty in living in a small space, as a child. Some aspects of it are so beautiful, and it’s so nice to not see the darkness. But then, in other ways, there’s a whole range of experience that’s being missed because of it.
I think that, especially as the kids are growing up, they have so much stuff going on in their own lives, they don’t really know how much they’re looking at their mom as the big problem.
There’s nothing I’d say that keeps me awake at night, but I think that when you’re working with a group of people that are so beyond talented that, every day, you wake up going, “All right, I gotta fight to stay at the same level as these people,” that’s what makes it fun.
I’m looking for something to laugh over. After long enough, your body just needs to keep the hydration. You can’t keep crying it out.
I have a lot of different influences. Everything from Maroon 5, Gwen Stefani, The Clash, Kanye West – just a lot of different artists.
I really love both acting and singing equally.
It’s hard when I get to the end of the movie and am held hostage and am supposed to be very upset and the funniest things I’ve ever heard in my life are coming out. All I can do is pretend there’s something really important behind me to hide my face from it.
Clothing totally changes my perception of how I feel about myself depending on what it is that I’m wearing.