Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.

Even the most humble role, I've always felt really wildly grateful to be getting anywhere in film business.

I think I'm really drawn to filmmakers and artists who are kind of pathologically incapable of thinking straightforward about film, and about life as well, who cannot help but think laterally, think sideways about an approach to anything cinematic.

I have so many really gifted friends, actors who I thought deserved as much as I did to get an agent or a job, or deserved more, and just never made it through somehow. I've always been really fiercely tethered to that. You know, I've been very lucky. All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.

All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.

A misfit like me getting anywhere in Hollywood as I somehow have, seemed, certainly at the time of 'Spanking The Monkey,' kind of out of reach, or not a very realistic take.

Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.