Actress

One of the things I really love about TV is this symbiotic relationship you can get between the writers and the actors, and the characters start to come to life because you start to collaborate.

I'll always take an artistic endeavor over a career move.

I always had challenges when I was younger, because I looked so young but sounded older.

When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.

I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.

My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.

I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision.

I like being the lead but I like being in an ensemble. There are different challenges and dilemmas with both. If you're carrying a film, there's a certain weight, but there are a lot of scenes to explore the character. When you're in an ensemble, you have to convey the entire character in a limited number of scenes.

I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from who you are as a person.

I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

We are all multidimensional and kind of have dual personalities. Everyone puts on different roles depending on what circumstances they're in without even noticing that they do that.

It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.

My father and my mother separated when I was two.

I'm fiercely protective of my privacy.

Yeah, I guess I'm not a particularly religious person, but I do really believe strongly that we all need to believe in something, and that's very personal to each one of us.

I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.

I feel like I'm the only person - or woman, at least - who hasn't read 'Fifty Shades of Grey.'

What I've realized is that we're our own harshest critics. We give ourselves limitations. But I want to push through that wall, on a creative and personal level.

I always feel like I want to work with people who raise my game, and I can do the same for them, and we can jump off the cliff together.