If you're afraid of everything out there, you quit going out there.

I grew up in an apolitical household. I never left the country. When I became an adult, I started traveling and became interested in politics, and I probably talked about things in a silly, ignorant way.

Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.

I tend to be pessimistic about everything: If things seem to be going good, I'm worried that it's going to end; if things are bad, then I'm worried that it's going to be permanent. It's not a very comfortable attitude to have all the time.

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.

The movies that are really big, at least in my experience, oftentimes don't have characters that I feel as personally connected to.

The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.