I think I'm not in this work to not look at life as it is. I'm not in it to say, "I want to wear a mask and escape," you know. I want to know what's happening in the world, and I want to have it touch me in a way that I can do something, my little part like that, and have it somehow translate.

I think that the idea of boundaries is being challenged everywhere. And I think our fascination with sci-fi is that it is a boundary-less world where we can kind of create the reality that we believe to be as opposed to the reality that is. It is about the beyond and the unknown in a different way than pretty much any type of storytelling is.

Sometimes what I actually love to do is go to a farm and get fresh milk or watch a pig get slaughtered.

When you find theater writing like in the theater on film but it's realistic, it doesn't matter who the character is, you want to do it.

I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.

Often times it's really hard for me to articulate why I connect to something.

When I walk into a screening, I'm nervous in a different way than I am as an actor. But the response is ultimately I know how I feel about it and that's what matters to me the most.