He was so. So dirty, and just moving in front of me, and cute. I was in love with him, especially because he was talking to me.

I've decided I can't really control people's perceptions of me. All I can do is decide on what I work on and how hard I work on it.

I hate being an actor, they dress you and put on your makeup and you just feel like a little baby.

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

There's a large chunk of me in all the parts. As an actor, I got involved largely because I want to let things out. The best acting is that that is most real and the only way to do that, is to genuinely feel it.

They say living well is the best revenge but sometimes writing well is even better.

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.