Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.

I just can't - I can't exist in normal group situations. A classroom, where you have to sort of jockey for position, compete for attention - I would just withdraw.

I don't concern myself with thinking ahead to the finished product. I focus more specifically on what the character is experiencing. Once you relieve yourself of the very arbitrary and always punishing pressure of what an audience is expecting you to do, acting becomes a lot more fun and pure.

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

In 'Zombieland,' it was such a freewheeling plot it almost didn't matter what the characters were doing scene to scene as long as there was a consistent banter.

I find it very difficult to do normal things without getting approached.

I live in New York City, so there's so much stimulation when you walk outside, it does not require a television in the home.