Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.

I feel like developing the muscle of my imagination became a way to survive reality.

When I go into a pitch room and I'm pitching something with a writing partner, everybody tends to look at the guy, even if I'm doing a lot of the talking.

So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.

When you come out to L.A. to make movies or to do this kind of work, everybody is coming out on their own and you leave your tribe behind. Then, it's a question of, that was your tribe by blood, and now, what is the tribe that you're making by choice or by what you think is important? I think we were having that experience, so somehow the cult world seemed really compelling.

The most intoxicating thing about being an actor is to surrender to a story that you never would have come up with.