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

Maybe silence is something we're uncomfortable with as a culture, I don't know.

I think you can always find interesting, complex and fascinating characters to play in different kinds of movies. It's in your hands.

I'm not passive aggressive. If something bothers me, I think about it, then I act on it. I express it.

I've always been drawn to a certain kind of dark aesthetic in cinema and in film, to what's abjected or considered abject. I've been tremendously influenced by noirish cinema whether that's Von Sternberg or Scorsese in the 70s or Lynch, etc.

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.

It would be nice to live off the land and fix cars.