Maya Hawke

“I really love my family. The more independence that I get and the more freedom that I have, the more interested I am in being a dedicated and involved family member.”

“One thing I've learned from my parents and from observing all the artists I've been lucky enough to grow up around is that you've got to be brave.”

“I've been sitting at the grown-ups' table my whole life.”

“Style icons always change, and they usually inspire my haircuts more than anything else.”

“Though I do believe that when you live in political times it is inevitable that your art be political, I also think we need to start making activists celebrities rather than trying to make celebrities to be activists.”

“When I discovered that, through acting, you can speak a beautiful language aloud and have a relationship to language that isn't one that's just eyes-to-page, pen-to-page - it's one that's full-bodied, full-voiced, full-heart... it really opened my heart and made me feel like I could be a storyteller.”

“In general, I feel very happy with how I got to have time on my own at least a little bit outside of the public eye.”

“I've never been interested in a career in modelling, I was interested in my independence. When I was in school, modelling was what I needed to reach independence without having to leave.”

“My parents are actors, and I'm the oldest of my siblings - I have three younger sisters and a brother who's my best friend. We're a close-knit, complicated family, but we spend a lot of time together, even though we live in different houses. We're a rambunctious gang!”

“If I changed my name, everyone would have just known that I changed my name. If I had been anonymous, it would have felt pretentious. It would seem like I'm trying to dodge something. I love my family and have such respect for their work, for their career and talents, and I'm very proud to be connected with them.”

“It's really easy as an actor just starting out to get into the mindset that you only get one break. But my parents have shown me that's not true.”

“When I was in my early and mid-teens, my style changed constantly. My clothing was inspired by 'Annie Hall' for a while, by a yoga teacher, a flower child, a pirate... name it.”

“I really loved getting to interact with an animal or a baby or a kid in a scene because they don't really know that you're acting. They don't know that this isn't reality.”

“The thing about acting that's unlike any other art form is that it's collaborative; directing and acting are a collaboration, and your acting won't succeed if the lighting design doesn't succeed or sets don't succeed.”

“I think success is when the way you talk about who you want to be and what you want to do lines up with who you are and what you do. I guess, by that, I mean I think success is practicing what you preach.”

“I got to take classes in writing with a fountain pen, and actually, something you make is your own textbook. So, while you're learning about something, you have to write essays on it, and then you handwrite in cursive, in fountain pen, your essays out on beautiful paper and you bind it together into a book that you hand in at the end of the course.”

“I hate technology and cellphones. I hate having to have one all of the time. I don't tweet or buzz or bing or whatever! It's a conscious thing - I hate the way that it can take over young people's lives.”

“There was a time that I would have carried a briefcase and worn a monocle were it to even border on socially acceptable.”

“Your whole childhood is just absent of choices. And then you become an adult, and every choice you make, you open some doors and close others.”

“I've become a little immune to the gazes of strangers because it's been a part of my life for so long.”