Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn't know you could make a living that way.
The only thing that's important is that every day I'm waking and doing something that I really love to do.
So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.
I think you get to see, through the different cult members, why people are attracted to a group like this. Everyone is there for a different reason and from a different background. That was part of what was interesting for us, in researching cults and exploring it. A lot of this happens in California.
As an actor, you have an accumulated knowledge base. But there's also something about it that every time you really feel like you're doing it for the first time; you have no idea whether you're capable of it.
I think we're scared of intimacy - all of us, a little bit.
A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.
I totally love my job, and I wake up every day basically thinking about how can I do my job better. It never feels like a job. It's hard, and it's exhausting sometimes, but it never feels like - I would do this even if they didn't pay me to do it. That's a pretty amazing feeling.
The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If Im afraid of it, then I want to do it.
Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.
One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a character and a story that never would have come out of your mind or heart.
I think movies do change people's hearts.
Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.
I think I am looking as an actor to find ways to push myself into places I haven't been before as a human being.
I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything.
That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.
I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we're living is even sustainable.
I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.
If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.
I think one thing for sure that you learn the more films that you make is how important it is to choose your collaborators.
Is there anything worse than being called the 'It Girl?' By definition, there will be a new one in two weeks.
We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we live in, male or female, you're this age, that age, this is your job, this is not your job, everything is about getting boxed in. I think we accept a lot of those boxes, that labeling, and the way that we perceive the world, but what even is perception? It all seems pretty flexible to me.
I used to be able to sit in a chair and for four hours straight in a very focused meditative way be in my own world without ay interruption. And now it's like your brain is getting so trained to check your phone, and there is like a dopamine release every time you get a text whether it's a good or a bad one. I'm really worried about what it's doing to our minds.
Sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical. I'm more interested in the kinds of movies where the science fiction world has a set series of rules and you operate in it because of, maybe, constraints in the budget.
If you came from the future and you arrived here, what would you be like? Would your immune system be depressed from that travel? Would you be well? Would you be ill? Would you be affected by micro-organisms of the time period and be hiding out in a basement? How would it all work, practically?
