If liking Katy Perry and drinking margaritas is gay, then who wants to be straight?!

I went to NYU graduate film school and met Pam [Romanowsky], and after doing a few things with her I thought she had the right sensibility and that she could figure it [The Adderall Diaries] out.

I worked at a McDonald's drive-through. I could always tell when girls were interested: They'd drive around again and say, "I forgot something."

I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.

I was being generous. Gia Coppola wasn't even a filmmaker at that time, but I asked her to do it, because I believed in her as an artist. And because I wanted a woman's take on the material. The book Palo Alto is very male-centric, but Gia carved out a bunch of the female characters, and brought them to the fore in the movie. And the project was richer for it.

I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.

If I'm working on a film, I'll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something.