It's hard sometimes when you're in a regular high school, you just feel like the odd kid out. The great thing about going to an art school [is] it's kind of like it's all the odd kids. It's all the kids that don't fit in at their regular schools, because you're into something and excited about something that other kids really aren't into. When you go to art school, everybody's kind of on the same page.

Most of the time when you see a movie, the best character in the movie is not "the guy," it's the guy next to the guy.

Money always changes the game, when you let a dollar come between you and your friends, your cohorts.

At Juilliard, I couldn't afford to have fun. I went to school and stayed home.

People fight for their regulars. It gets dirty sometimes.

I'm not Martin Luther King. I can't be Martin Luther King. The only thing I can do is present what I feel the essence of Martin Luther King is.

Art-school girls are very nice.