Getting socially outcast can be the best and most informative thing that can ever happen to you because you have to learn who you are separate from the pack.

We’re not living in an age of no hope. We are living in the age of choice, which is much scarier. It means that what we do every day matters, which is always a bummer for humans. But it’s a great thing and it’s inspirational and we need to remember that. We have a long way to go and not a long time to get there.

New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness. A lot of people seem to be similar to the kid in school, which is doing a lot of things with no direct consequence to their joy, or their lives.

The Wizard of Oz' is my favorite movie. It was the first movie I can ever remember watching.

I have a lot of really wonderful friends who are of very different sexes and genders.

My goal beyond being an actor, is just being an open channel.

I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9. I think that's because my parents always treated me as an adult.