130 Quotes by Elle Fanning

I always try to do something very different with each character because that's why I like to do this, because I can become someone else completely and it's fun.

You have to have a balance between your normal life and movies.

I was kind of scared at first to do that [vice-over] because when you're on set, a lot of the things going on around you - the environment and playing off other actors - and that's what makes it easier and helps you to be in your character. So, realizing you're not going to have that and you're going to be secluded in this booth, it's like, "How am I going to be a character when I'm just in these walls?"

I used to play sports in school, but it was hard to do that because you're part of a team and you don't want to let your team down.

I want to write and direct a movie one day.

In a funny way, acting, to me, is all make-believe, even if the film has unicorns in it or is a normal movie that can be set in real-life time. I'm still imagining that I'm a different character, so it's all, in a funny way, like fantasy.

The first time we did it [voice-over], I was trying to use my face and my eyes more so and really portray that emotion, and that didn't matter. I realized you have to bring that emotion into the way you sound, and all those different layers have to be in your voice instead of the way you are wrinkling your eyebrows or whatever. I had to learn how to do that.

In a funny way, I like the past, I'm a very nostalgic person.

I was always a fan of Nic. With his movie, you know it's "A Nic Refn Movie."