You do hear some strange rumours floating around. One I've heard is that I'm allergic to metal.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

There's two things I gotta do. One is, I gotta update my resume. And then, I have to call my mother.

I don't like watching people work if they're making art.

I don't think you could function on set if you think like that. I think once you start to think of the impact, then you're not really coming from a truthful place. I think the best thing to do for me is what's worked in the past.

I'm a big Philip Roth fan. I think "American Pastoral" is the great American novel of the past 30 to 40 years. It's a novel about what happened in the 1960s, and I think America is still dealing with what happened then. It's devastatingly sad.

Maybe the best things about celebrity are the things like being able to get that seat on the plane that you wouldn't normally get, but that's kind of like cheating.