You have to be different, great or first.
Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.
Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.
I was really surprised when I started working and realized that you're actually on your own, a lot of the time. It makes you really responsible, as an actor.
I am proud and embarrassed by how incredibly self-confident I was in my late teens and early 20s. I know that there were other things going on, too, but I had an overwhelming belief in myself. Like I said, I'm embarrassed by it and proud of it.
I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.
You know what it’s like when you’re trying to fall asleep and it only makes you more wide awake?
I was making guitars and I was a sheet metal worker and if you ever see sheet metal workers' hands, you've never seen so many cuts in your life.
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.