The blue collar milieu was something that I really understood and resonated with me and I thought was underrepresented in American cinema.

A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.

After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations.

I think the harder the shoot, the more I feel like I'm enjoying myself.

Any planning that I have in my career is totally accidental really.

If you're doing your job properly, you take the risk of feeling slightly foolish and delve in and bring out the emotions.

Putting on weight is easy all the way through. But after the first couple of weeks, the novelty wears off very quickly, and your body is groaning and starting to really shout at you, saying, 'Why? Why? Why? Why are you doing this?'