When you take on a role you try to do as much as possible beforehand to get your mind into it. Just to prepare because it's a daunting prospect to go six months or whatever.

When you're on set you don't realize the way something is going to look since you're on the other side of the camera.

I live in New York City, where, if you're in a movie at a popular independent theater, you think you're king of the world, because you're in a bubble. So there's no way for me to properly conceive of the attention that the movie gets in a way that doesn't make me confused.

No compliment is ever sufficient and every insult, of course, is true.

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

It's really hard to copy another actor and be successful. In fact, that's usually the reason people are not good, because they're copying something they've seen, but, for some reason with their face and their body, it doesn't work.

If I get no sleep the night before a show, I feel that performance is the best one.