I think that artists don't make art - the art makes itself through us. I'm not the doer. I'm just along for the ride. Acting really reminds me of that because I don't write the words; I don't make the decisions. That's the director. Narcissism is a tragic condition. It must be so miserable to live trapped in a reflection that only includes the smallest version of our identities. Our true identities should have no bounds and no limits.

Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coincide with the rest of their lives in a healthy manner. And try to navigate it in our modern society, which is wrought with stigma and taboo and repression, and sort of as a result, these inner monsters that some teenagers really struggle with.

Getting lost in human perception is a very scary idea.

Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary. It's not about me. It's about being part of something.

The token gay character is always so funny and so fantastic. That's happened a lot. Or they're often purely victims.

I've fallen prey to my fair share of moments of the phobias of others and the way that that can become an attack.

There's no true value placed in learning, if the point of you learning something is to simply know it for a test, to get a grade, to go to the good school.