Anya Taylor-Joy

“I don't know what kind of career I want to forge for myself. But I want it to be one where I love the work that I've done. And I like to think that I have good instincts.”

“To me, it always comes down to character and script and then director. If a character belongs to me, it's mine. We belong to each other, and I feel a fierce need to tell that story, and it just so happens that a lot of these characters have been residing in pretty dark worlds.”

“I think I just really understand what it is to feel like you don't fit in, within your society, within your world, within your family, within whatever. I've always felt like an odd duck so I really understood that.”

“I'm a surprisingly good rapper.”

“I never fit in as a kid. I always felt that there was something different about me.”

“I swear like a sailor.”

“'The Witch' is feminist.”

“I can't just say yes to a movie. I have to be really passionate about it.”

“I love what I do so much, and I have a very acute understanding of how I work as a person, so if I'm afraid, I shut down and can't do anything. If I'm overwhelmed, I shut down and can't do anything.”

“I love the theater, I'd love to work in theater at some point, but I grew up with movies being something that I just clung to.”

“My goal is to make a movie that no one would sort of expect me to make.”

“I refused to learn English for two years when we moved to London, hoping to send my family back home. It was tough, but at the same time, it has given me a sense of displacement that actually really suits the life that I'm living now.”

“I don't lie very well!”

“I think, probably, the place that I feel I most belong is a movie set.”

“I need specifically love, affection, people to touch me all the time. Because otherwise, I don't really - I don't cope very well. On 'Morgan,' everything is shot from the other side of the glass, so I was alone in a soundproof room watching everybody but being completely separate from whatever was going on.”

“I don't really feel like I belong anywhere, which makes me belong everywhere.”

“I'm a hugger and a lover and a dancer!”

“I just want to work with wonderful people.”

“I just want to see what life's going to throw my way. So far, it's been very unexpected. I'm kinda on a roller coaster and want to enjoy that.”

“I can't do something that I would not throw myself under a bus for.”