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" I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people. "

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" And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly. "

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" I think a famous parent is really different from a famous grandparent. My parents are very successful, but no one knows who they are, and they live a completely grounded, homey life. I'm friends with the Gummer girls, whose mum is Meryl Streep, and that feels from the outside like a different kind of burden. "

" Turning 30 changed me in ways I didn't expect. For the very first time, I felt like my life is valuable. Not my life because I'm putting something good into the world or I'm well-respected in my field, but my life as a human being on this planet for a limited amount of time. "

" Every role requires its own set of tools, and I think, because of that, it is very hard to ever feel totally prepared or totally able. "

" I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily. "

" I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers. "

" I never wanted to be a playwright. "

" I will be a broken record for justice. "

" Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it. "

" You can have a wonderful time doing a movie and believe in it completely, and then you see the final product, and it doesn't look anything like what you thought it was going to. "

" There's something really earnest inside me all the time. It's not a cool or fun way to be. Sometimes I would like to experience being someone who's not wired the way I'm wired. "

" I want to derive pleasure from this planet and put pleasure back into it. "

" When my first play was produced, I had this sudden feeling that I feel powerful. Like, the next time I go into an audition room, and it's me and the same eight girls as always, I will have this thing that no one can take away from me. They can see us all as interchangeable. But I am not interchangeable. "

" And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else. "

" I remember being two, maybe, and hearing my mum's typewriter in the other room and sticking my hands under the door and screaming, 'Mum! Mum!' I was so angry she wouldn't come out. I got used to it quickly. "

" I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women. "

" If I'm not working, I don't feel complete. "

" I grew up speaking Spanish. The woman who helped raise me was only Spanish-speaking, so it was one of my primary languages as a kid. And I lived in Spain for a while. "

" Writing-wise, I like to have a lot of things on the burners at once, because when I hit a wall, I like to move on to the thing I haven't hit a wall on. "

" I don't want to do every independent film offered to me. "

" Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world. "

" My hero is Michelle Williams, who I grew close to when we did 'Meek's Cutoff.' She's an extraordinary actor and mom. "

" I think most actors jump at the chance to do something where the camera's on them all the time. "

" I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play. "

" I can work a lot faster when I'm writing a screenplay than when I'm writing a play because, if I'm having a problem with a scene or something, I can just be writing it in a way where there's no dialogue, or find a way to make sound do the work that I want to do or a close-up do the work that I need to do. "

" I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem. "

" I really love people. I love to meet people. I'm curious about people. "

" I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays. "

" I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way. "

" If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop. "