Sometimes love is calm and easy and sometimes it's just plain dirty.

I didn't know many classes where I could try and relate the thing that I really loved and wanted to do into an intellectual idea.

Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.

I hope I'm a spiritual person. I'm trying to be a spiritual person.

As an actor, I feel like I'm somebody who, when somebody gives me a mark, I don't want to hit it. I don't like that. But then, without even knowing it, I just hit it.

My parents taught me as a kid: do your work. Do it well. Try as hard as you can, whatever it is. It will one day, for the long run, it will make some sort of change somewhere.

I was working with Michael Shannon and I was like, "Oh man I'm having trouble with this scene." And he's like, "Well, then just open it up." I was like, "But, the mark?" And I was like, what's wrong with me? And he was like, "Dude, what's wrong with you?"