A biography for Maika Monroehasn’t been written yet.
“When I'm filming, it's in the contract - 'No kiteboarding' - ha ha.”
“I'd really love to work with Quentin Tarantino. There's so many people that I'd love to work with, but there's something about Quentin, and one of my all-time favorite films is 'Kill Bill.' Something along those lines would be such a blast.”
“I wasn't thinking that I was two horrors back to back; I was thinking these were characters that I want to play.”
“At about 17, I decided I wanted to take kiteboarding seriously and compete, so my agents were like, 'Just keep sending in a few audition tapes anyway, just for good stuff.'”
“I'm lucky because I remember my dad showing me 'Independence Day,' and I loved it.”
“In the Dominican Republic, my mom and I lived in this little tiny town called Cabarete, which is very poor.”
“I have to say, working with Dan Stevens in 'The Guest' and seeing his transformation was incredible. Also Kate Winslet. Off set, she's loud and sweary, but when she walks on set, she has this calmness and is so centred.”
“I don't look at myself as a Scream Queen, and I don't plan on continuing on this genre route. If anything, I want to go very different places.”
“I'd never thought of horror as being so challenging, but it is.”
“I grew up really loving old-school horror such as 'Halloween' and 'The Birds.'”
“There's some freedom that you get with indie films that you don't get with the big-budget ones. There's just a different style. I hope I can switch back and forth for the rest of my career, but I've kind of grown up on indies, and there's nothing better than working with these directors so closely and and being such a huge part of the process.”
“I think a superhero would be awesome to play.”
“Horror movies can be - I don't wanna say not real, but so over-the-top: you can get scared 'cos things are loud and in-your-face, but these are real emotions that I'm using.”
“I used to be a professional kiteboarder. People were like, 'Oh, my God, are you scared of sharks? Are you scared of injuries?' You can't be scared. If you're scared, then you can't do it. You can't train to be the best.”
“With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained. But with acting, there are different variations; there's not a right or wrong way. It's so hard because it's so out of your hands. I have no idea what's going to happen!”
“I'm a huge fan of the first 'Independence Day.' It is amazing. When it came out in 1995, just how explosive and big it was... I loved it.”
“There is something so fun about scaring yourself.”
“Signing up for 'It Follows,' I didn't have any idea it was going to turn out the way it did, but seeing it, the music and the feel of it definitely was pretty amazing, getting that kind of throwback feel to classic horror movies.”
“For me, it's first about the characters. I look for a character who is intriguing and challenging and different from what I've done before.”
“I enjoy roles that are quite physical.”