What I love about the way they both [Paul Thomas Anderson and Joaquin Phoenix] work is that all of the monkey business is on film. There's no monkey business outside of the monkey business of making the movie. There's no ego bullshit, there's no wasted energy. It's all directed at the story and that's rare.

Ive always wanted to play the villain. But the young girl is never the villain.

I dont think Paul Thomas Anderson has a standard approach to anything.

So when things start going badly, you're invested in the characters in a way I think amplifies the horror and the fear because you're invested.

Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out.

I look back at my adolescence, and Im shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.

I didn’t find it difficult to live in the “Inherent Vice” world or play those scenes, because they just seemed so real.