Anya Taylor-Joy

I find it very difficult to compare any two projects because they're all such different beasts.

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.

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

I know it sounds really precious and pretentious, but I can't actually remember deciding to want to be an actor. I just knew that I had too many feelings and I had to kind of get them out in some way.

I got scouted when I was 16, almost 17, and it was something that had never entered my thoughts. I never thought I could be a model. I was such a tomboy growing up, and I've never really been into makeup or anything like that, so it was really surprising, but I definitely saw it as an in for acting.

Modeling had never entered my consciousness. I was always like, 'I'm going to act.' But I thought, 'If this can help me with that, great.'

I think, probably, the place that I feel I most belong is a movie set. It doesn't matter where it is in the world or who I'm making the movie with; that's the closest thing that I've got to a sense of placement. So I guess acting was a way of finding a home, if that makes sense.

I've been quite lucky in that the roles that I've been able to play are all kind of outsiders. And, you know, I belong to so many places and belong to none of them at the same time, so there's this sense of displacement - I very much understand what it is to not fit in or belong somewhere.

I did buy an electric guitar while shooting 'Split.'

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.

Movies were my first love.

I think we have a very Disneyfied, sterilized version of what an evil witch is nowadays.

I don't lie very well!

I have an active imagination.

I swear like a sailor.

Even the strongest bonds, flesh and blood, they can just evaporate in a second given the right conditions.

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

I just want to work with wonderful people.

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