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.

First rule of magic? Always be the smartest guy in the room.

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

Everyone's a geek in some way or other. Everyone's an outsider.

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

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.

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.