I Almost Never Get Nervous. I Have

I Had A Deliberate Plan To Get Into Movies By Becoming A Model, So I Went To New York And Got A Job Pretending To Be A Mannequin In Store Windows.

I Met The Former President Of Iceland [jóhanna Sigurðardóttir] Once. I Think She Was President For, Like, 16 Years Or Something. She Said She Used To Get Letters From Little Boys Saying, "madam President, Do You Think It Will Ever Be Possible For A Boy To Be President?" Just Like We Assume That Girls Can't Be Politicians, They Were Assuming Boys Can't. That's What They Thought. It's So Crazy.

I Told My Parents When I Was Three That I Wanted To Be In Movies. I Don't Know What I Saw At Three Years Old That Would Make Me Decide That's A Job And I Want To Have That Job. But I Was Very Confident, Very Sure That's What I Wanted To Do. I Didn't Do Anything About It. I Didn't Prove It To Myself Or Anything. I Just Knew.

My Scripts Are Always Filled With Notes. I Like To Just Analyze Everything From The Point Of View Of The Whole Picture, Of The Movie, My Whole Picture.

Nobody Ever Said, "well If You Want To Be In Movies, You Should Go To L.a." Everybody Else Was Going To New York. So I Went To New York With Them. And Then I Was Like, "how Am I Supposed To Get A Movie?"