If you just read the book, you're taking in the narrative, you're taking in the characters, you're understanding it in a certain way. If you make a movie it's really an act of translation.

When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.

I actually don't smoke weed, but I've played a lot of stoners - especially with Seth Rogen.

We fell in love last night. He's the coolest guy.

Dreams and expectations also have the very dark flipside of disappointment, broken dreams.

As an actor in the classroom, you're revealing so much, and teachers are, you know, they're just critiquing like a painting or a piece of work; it's like, it's you, and it's your emotions that they're working with.

You say I sucked at the Oscars. I was a genius at the Oscars. That was experimental tuxedo sleep art.