My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

Obviously I'm not there to pick up anybody, but I'm not afraid to hang out in a predominantly gay establishment.

I try to pace myself and not work for the sake of working and stick to what inspired me prior to receiving recognition.

War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography, I would imagine it becomes more difficult.

I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.

What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.

It's great when people appreciate your work, but I don't know how seriously to take it. The amazing thing is that I found something so early that I can support myself doing, and that can even be extremely lucrative, but I love it either way.