Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.

I conducted a bunch of interviews for Interview magazine. They actually paid me. I think I was probably 18 or 19. I was in college and I remember feeling, like, "Wow." I had a real job, and they paid me money, and it was exciting.

Every movie changes you. The process of making a film changes you. You have to be obsessed, you have to get up at 3 in the morning and go "Wait, I have an idea!" You have to continually be drawn over and over again to deepening inside that story, and ruminating over questions: "Why would he say this to her? Why if he was standing there, would she go?" Every one of those answers has to come from some personal place, and in order to do that, you can't sit on the surface. It's such a big change that you can't really explain it to anyone else.

I want to change the system from within the system. And that means focusing and specializing.

My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.

It's a skill that people are born with. Either you're a focuser or you're a multitasky person. I am a full-focus person.