My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11.

The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.

The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.

I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.