I think for me, when I'm looking at a script I really try to consider what experience am I embarking upon, because for me it's really about the experience.

Of course, the surest way to free yourself from an existential crisis is through comedy.

By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person.

I've had some of the best craft services on independent movies, actually, because they get more creative, generally, with a smaller budget. The work is still the same. I didn't really notice the difference other than I was getting dressed behind a curtain, basically.

Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game - loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren't true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react.

Compassion takes imagination.

It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around.