Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.

It used to kind of upset me when I'd be working on a part in my hotel room, and I'd get an idea for a song and find myself on the guitar for an hour when I should be working on my lines. But I've discovered that when I start to shake up my creativity it wants to be expressed in all kinds of different ways. They all kind of inform each other.

Seeing David Mackenzie's work in "Starred Up," I thought that was a wonderful film.

A fella who accepts himself and is relaxed into who he is - that appeals to people.

If you open your heart, then the object of your love becomes so precious because you are so open. And that philosophy, that caring, spreads.

I don't have too much time to jam with the rest of Hollywood.

Directing takes a lot of time.