I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.

I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.

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.

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

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

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

What I did have was an incredible amount of belief in myself.

I was really surprised when I started working and realized that you're actually on your own, a lot of the time. It makes you really responsible, as an actor.

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.

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

Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.

I just let the pain take over, allowing it to numb the pain of being left behind.

She wondered why they didn't understand that their true selfs were good enough, and if they weren't, then the someones they weren't good enough for, were really the ones not good enough.

To be loved, is to be immortal.

He who seeks beauty will find it.

When Jennifer Lawrence says it's 'dumb' to go hungry to make other people happy, she's saying it with the carefree attitude of a woman who probably will never have to make that choice to conform.

Comfort is key. I need to make sure the cleat first my foot perfectly. Weight is important, too.

Don't be ashamed to play safe.

Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive.

I like to perform live like we're all just hanging out in my living room. I'm totally casual and informal on stage.

I have a lot to say about the world, clearly. I can't put together a clear sentence about it all, but through the work I can say what I think.