Hollywood is an illusion. These intense workplaces, with very close relationships, a few months at a time - and then it ends.

A lot of times, mainstream critics are much tougher on small, independent movies because they can be.

If you're really being honest with yourself when you're acting, part of it is touching the real you. You can only separate yourself so much from the character. Those vulnerable moments do touch me.

[Country Music] is the final destination for many punk rockers [...] Rockabilly is the mid-point and then [they] end up at Country [...] There's purity to that music and I think that appeals to a lot of punk rock people - the precision, the purity, and the directness of Country Music.

It's kind of liberating to be able to bring your own ideas to things, but it's also a lot of pressure, it's like screenwriting on your feet.

I'm much more character based. I try to just be really committed to what I'm doing.

Being unprepared makes me nervous. I'm old-fashioned show folk.