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

When I work on a film, I always tend to relate to the crew.

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

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.

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

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.

Right now as an artist, what I want to do is be a part of works that are unignorable. I couldn't be less interested in how people receive it, honestly. As long as it's unignorable.

The clearer that division [of social media] is between it not being a reflection of reality, and being a complete make-believe world, the more we're helping ourselves.

You can't become another person if you're not self-aware.

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.

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters

It was like a commercial for laundry detergent or tampons or a prescription medication with death listed as a possible side effect.

I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.

Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system.

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.

All our engineers are designers and all our designers are engineers.

The humming of my parents' voices from behind my bedroom wall, which throughout my childhood had filled me with a sense of security, had now become a source of anxiety and panic.

People must learn how to think well to achieve their dreams and to reach their potential.

The past is what the present is doing now.

So May 4th in the labor movement has always been an important date.

Brave men die in battle.