I'm conflicted with theater in the city because you want to reach a diverse audience, and that audience doesn't typically go to the theater.

I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.

I think it's possible to be free in a big production. It's the eye of the director and the actor and the story.

I always think back to the original movies and to those quieter moments where Luke is out in A New Hope, and there are the two suns setting. It is the equivalent, basically, of a farm boy dying to get out of his small town and do something bigger. It's those kinds of universal themes that ground this whole thing in space.

Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.

The only thing I know that makes me feel comfortable is to know as much as I can. Not like what the shots are going to be, but knowing enough about my character that I can forget those things. And more specifically, my lines. I have to know my lines. I have to know something really well, so I can forget it when we're doing it. And there is comfort in knowing, "Okay, there's not another stone that I could have overturned."

It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.