A biography for Mia Wasikowskahasn’t been written yet.
“Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you.”
“Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.”
“I get restless easily so I always want to keep working, but I am trying to pace it as well.”
“When I step back and look at all of these really successful people that I've worked with, one thing I do take away from it is how hard they work and how focused they are.”
“I love Portland. I think it's one of the best cities - I obviously haven't been to very many places, but I had one of the best times I've had on a set there.”
“What I like about film is it explores imperfections.”
“When you look at magazines, you feel so inadequate and so small and you feel really imperfect, when you're constantly seeing these images.”
“I would hope everyone would be a feminist.”
“I like my anonymity - that when I meet people they don't know me.”
“As a teenager I was very anxious. I had a lot of energy and passion that I wanted to channel into creative things, and I always felt like I wasn't achieving enough.”
“You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings.”
“I was a bit of a loner as a teenager. I never went to a single social event, because they terrified me.”
“I always start a film thinking I know how to do it, then I learn all over again.”
“All the time that I'm acting with an animated character, I'm looking at a tennis ball or sticky tape or an eyeline or a man in a green suit. There's no real environment, just this electric green that's blaring into your brain.”
“Dance is such a stressful environment.”
“There comes a point in your life when you realize your parents aren't perfect.”
“I love Europe.”
“Once you're put out there in the public eye, people feel a certain ownership over you.”
“I rarely meet other young actors.”
“It's amazing how much you can absorb on a film set.”