The best notes are action-based and less, I don't know, heady, theoretical, because, as actors, we're too much in our heads anyway.

Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.

I had to battle it out with all the usual suspects and whatnot and go to the callback. I was lucky that (writer-director) John (Levine) and I were sort of these two white-boy hip-hop-heads from New York. I think that alone got me in the door.

I always had a weight issue since I was a young kid.

Just to be part of a process where you hit no professional speed bumps and you're just sort of going on and on. I'm surrounded by these people that are all so collaborative and all bring things of their own to the process. For them to be alive in the scenes so you don't have to worry.

I don't really understand why I should be a role model but I know that children do look up to me, so it is my responsibility to motivate people and be inspiring. I hope that I can do that for kids.

I grew up as a really sick kid; I had really bad childhood asthma and was at home all the time in New York.