People sometimes actually get me to think I take things too seriously and maybe I'm too earnest and it's coming across like I'm better than them.

People cultivate these fully formed personalities.

I prefer to be hated than be false and fool people.

You don't always just have to do an indie movie to feel like you're controlling it with a few people that you really have connected with, creatively. You can do it on a bigger scale.

I learn a lot with actors that I don't think are good. Every experience shapes you. I've had experiences with actresses - and I say actresses because there's just a woman thing - that have achieved what she's achieved, by means that I can't understand.

I'm going to stop smoking. I'm not such a good smoker, anyway. It's not in my bones. I'm gonna drop it.

I really don't think about my career, in terms of planning it out and what any role does for me.