When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buck teeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces.

I was supposed to go out with this girl, but the plans mixed up because I was working late. So I went to her apartment with a flower. She was asleep, but I really wanted to see her. I figured I'd be like Romeo, and climbed up to her balcony and gave her a rose. She was very shocked. After that, it was over.

The hair is really a way to push me even farther out of just what people know me for. I don't really know what people know me for.

I put out a lot of different kinds of material, and maybe people read that as egotistical. Or maybe, since a lot of it does involve some aspect of me, they find it self-aggrandizing. But there’s a long tradition of artists using themselves. Look, I know I’m not perfect. And, who knows, maybe a part of it has to do with self-obsession. But it’s also about using this weird thing that is a public persona as raw material for creative projects.

The fame and the fame-hungry world we live in does it all for you. Women are lining up on your Instagram account to meet you.

I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.

It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.