The way I see the job, my definition of it, is to create characters to the best of your ability and then fit into what's trying to be accomplished in the general framework of the film. I think that's whether you're doing this- even if you're doing musical theater. That's what I think an actors job is. I don't know. I like to think what an actors job is is to create characters.

I'm sure there are directors who don't like to work with actors and don't know how to be sensitive to actors.

I'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments.

You don't share the things you're forced to share [on a movie set].

I tried ice-skating and wasn't very good at it.

At age 12 I had an obsession with Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and then proceeded to watch all the other Kubrick films I could including a doc called Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures in which it was revealed to me that he started as a photographer...I got a camera sometime shortly after, but spent many years just photographing flowers in my neighborhood.

I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can.