There's definitely a psychology to making you feel important and like you're part of the game. It's a very special quality, especially with a first-time director.

I always find the most depressing stuff most interesting.

As young, hot actors living in Hollywood, you get even more attractive.

When people ask me what my dream role would be, I tell them that it's to play someone very dark. Very dark - like someone involved in the drug world or some other criminal venture. Maybe someone who's delusional or not all there or just not well. I really hope I can do that one day.

When it's going well, stand-up is the best thing in the world, but when it's not, it feels like all your toes are being pulled off one by one.

I'm kind of harsher than most people.

The great thing about Jane Austen - the reason we're all still obsessed with her - is that she gets inside a woman's mind and she taps into our fantasies of wanting to be accepted and loved for who we are.