I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control.

I literally went from being unable to play my rent to being on a plane the next day, being paid peanuts.

If they let me choose between you and the dog, I'll choose the dog.

I went through various stages in my childhood, as we all do, various stages of obsessions with people and things. And I did. I wanted to be the first white Harlem Globetrotter.

The weirdest thing in the world is to see some guy who is just super earnest.

There's the whole Mad Hatter's dilemma, it was the amount of mercury that they used in the glue to make the hats. Everything was damaging. So, in terms of the Mad Hatter, looking at it from that perspective of this guy who literally is damaged goods, physically damaged, emotionally a little obtuse, and taking that and deciding that he should be - as opposed to just this hyper, nutty guy - he should explore all sides of the personality at an extreme level.