There was definitely a learning curve in terms of being on film, but being on a set was all good.

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

History most grandiose accomplishments can have the most trivial origin

Be offended by everything or be offended by nothing.

I'm extremely proud of our very, very diverse cast which represents the world that I walk around in every day.

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.

Whether thats positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.

For the mind to flower it has to go beyond what it knows.

You search for God, and seek to find Him here. Or you seek to find Him there. Why need you to look in the corners of the room when He entirely fills the room?

After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.

The nation can prosper and be happy only when education develops in an atmosphere of Truth, Love and Reverence.

We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.