I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school.

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

I think the consensus among our generation and people younger than us is that we do have a defining challenge in the moment, so I do like being involved in something bigger than the finger-doodling I do in art. It stimulates your brain in certain ways.

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.

Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character he's playing.

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

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.