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.

I was a solid C student because I was doing so many plays. I was a drama nerd, but I was also kind of a Zelig-like character; I would shift between different groups of people. But the people I spent most of my time with were either chorus or swing choir or the drama nerds.

I'm bored by repeating myself, and I would imagine that an audience would be bored by me repeating myself.

People say, 'Don't you get tired of people coming up to you all the time?' But what's wrong with strangers saying they love you?

I always get a headache the first time I watch a movie I'm in. Because you're staring at the screen so hard, your brain is doing all this work trying to put things in context of what the day-to-day experience of making it was. And the timeline that's in your head of when it was made, and on what day, how you felt. And then you're also trying to grasp what it's been edited into.

There is something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on earth but not quite.