My hope is to never act again and just do press.

Often times, being in a popular thing means that you have to compromise your own acting.

Acting is a weird, kind of alienating job because you're in an isolated place. Even if you're working with a lot of other people, you're kind of alienated. Actors say that a lot, and I kind of find that to be true.

I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts.

My mom always said that she didn't wear a red nose and big shoes because that's the reason people are scared of clowns. My dad is a sociology teacher, so he probably figured that out with her. Those are the things that are exaggerated, that don't give off the signals of humans. You know, if you draw a picture of a circle and ask somebody to feel empathy with the circle, they won't. But if you draw literally two, three dots inside the circle, like two eyes and a nose, you immediately feel empathy.

The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you've prepared for two months.

In New York, everybody is their own celebrity, so they're not so interested in other people.