Esme Creed-Miles

Even as a kid I remember seeing 'Minority Report' and just crying my eyes out. It was horrible what was happening to…

— Esme Creed-Miles

I definitely struggle with a disillusionment towards my body and my gender.

— Esme Creed-Miles

I don't really leave my house. I'm a very introverted person. I don't like going out. I don't like parties.

— Esme Creed-Miles

As an actor, I had the most power than I've ever had before, because I was able to create and arc and…

— Esme Creed-Miles

I thought 'Hanna' was an opportunity to explore a character whose femininity was so raw and unconditioned by the modern world.

— Esme Creed-Miles

I want to be involved in lots of different things. I want to write and direct, and I make music.

— Esme Creed-Miles

It was so cool to be listening to, I don't know, some Cocteau Twins song while I was running through the Slovakian…

— Esme Creed-Miles

'Hanna' doesn't maintain social norms. She doesn't have those boundaries. She speaks her mind and is very physical and funny.

— Esme Creed-Miles

Young action heroines feel in service of male gaze, rather than being the full complexity of a human being.

— Esme Creed-Miles

I think the best privilege that I have in terms of having them as my parents was not just the doors that…

— Esme Creed-Miles

The way I feel seen by the opposite sex is sometimes really detrimental to me. I'm very aware of how I'm constantly…

— Esme Creed-Miles

I personally feel like the conversation around feminism has advanced a lot. People are starting to realize privileged white feminism isn't cutting…

— Esme Creed-Miles

'Hanna' has grown up in mother nature's beautiful wilderness and that's what she knows. So for someone like me who has always…

— Esme Creed-Miles

I wish we did, in a way, grow up in the forest and we didn't all just post bikini pictures and work…

— Esme Creed-Miles

'Hanna' has grown up in wilderness. It highlights humanness and animal-ness in humans. She has an interesting take on gender and love.

— Esme Creed-Miles

I always found growing up that, even inspiring female characters or complex female characters in TV and film... I often found that…

— Esme Creed-Miles

I just love listening to music and talking about it, so my social media is mostly dedicated to talking about songs and…

— Esme Creed-Miles

I'm very conditioned by my surroundings, by the influences of social media, by the television I watch. And I always found, growing…

— Esme Creed-Miles

Women should not only be doing action on-screen but should be a part of every other aspect of filmmaking.

— Esme Creed-Miles

In my screen test for 'Hanna,' I sort of pretended I was this sporty person when I really wasn't.

— Esme Creed-Miles

Fight prep, boxing, cardio, stretching. It's almost like dancing, you have to learn to dance and keep practicing it.

— Esme Creed-Miles

I believe in assigned sex but not necessarily gender. Gender is a learned construct that is detrimental to both sexes.

— Esme Creed-Miles

The way that I work is I didn't go to drama school or anything like that so I have no choice but…

— Esme Creed-Miles

Sometimes punching a bag for half an hour was pretty cathartic and pretty necessary.

— Esme Creed-Miles

I think growing up, the assimilation of most cultural conventions typically encouraged by a heightened awareness of gender and sex encourages a…

— Esme Creed-Miles