I don't tend to say it's time for one of this or that genre. Things flow to you in a strange way, and why you bump into a certain kind of thing in one moment is...it's hard to explain.

People think because I went to Yale that that implies privilege, and it is a privilege in the sense that it's an incredible opportunity.

My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s.

A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.

I'm an actor, and, beyond that, the thing I do most compulsively is writing. So I come at it very much from this sense of character. I get interested in people. And I feel confident in my capacity to absorb and manifest the characteristics of people. I have a real auditory hang-up for dialogue; re-creating the way people talk really is an addiction in my brain.

I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.

I've observed over and over that people seem to get a much deeper sense of fulfillment out of something they've done as an act of service than out of the things they do for themselves.