I want people to believe me when I play a part and they are less apt to if they know a lot about me and have associations about me.

I do all kinds of roles - nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho - and occasionally someone kind of normal. It's weird, when I lived in Austin I was always cast as pretty normal people. But when I moved to Los Angeles I was immediately branded a psycho

I generally play strong people and scary people.

You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help

I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned these familiar ways of thinking about fiction, totality of vision or structure was really all that remained.

If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending.

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.