It's weird. I feel like people assume if a character is very different than you, that means it's difficult to get into their head or into their skin.

Seeing someone happy on set is just a very small slice of the reality of an actor's life.

I don't want to be a basket case on set. I try to sort of quiet all of that, all those thoughts, kinda just let yourself be aware of them when you're preparing to do the work but then once you get there you have to feel as free as possible. Anything that I perceived as something that ran the risk of stressing me out, I just left outside the studio doors because I didn't want to undermine myself.

I've never had to talk about my work, nobody's given a damn about it - you know, what I thought. I find that I sort of like that, to get to keep it to myself. It's a bit bizarre.

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

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

I find life so shocking in general. Everything about it surprises me.