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

I prefer playing characters that are going through turmoil. Most movie characters are just in service to the story.

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.

No one should be offended - that's not my style.

When you are in a live-action movie, you have so many more options to express yourself. You can use your body and your gestures and facial expressions. When you are doing an animated movie, you really only have your voice.

I am actually going to two therapists right now. I don't know, I actually feel like therapy has just made me more uncomfortable.

I've never had tastes of people my own age. All of my friends when I was 15 were in their 40s. I'm not actually mature, just very self-conscious around people my own age because I feel like I'm supposed to act the same way they act and I don't know how.