I think great directors really respect their actors and vice versa. That mutual respect makes the job fun instead of anything but.

I don't really enjoy working in TV, to be completely honest, even though it's incredibly lucrative, I'm just terrified of not being satiated in a myriad of different ways. It's amazing that I get to create every day, as an actor, or a director, or a writer, and I get to do it in a variety of different genres and worlds and characterizations. I think that's the great privilege of what we do, we get to make believe. I get to go to so many different places, try on different occupations, take on different points of view. That's what's always been sort of alluring.

The reason I got into this business was for the privilege to exist in different genres and different worlds and play out different realities.

People do horrible things when they're young. There might be betrayal and there might be things that should be forgotten.

I'm vegan on home base, but when I travel to other countries, I throw it all into the garbage.

I always tried to make people laugh. I attribute that to - I come from a family of divorce. It was a way to distract myself from stuff. I always thought it was interesting that my brother and I existed in this really tight bond, and we would just take the piss out of pretty much everything. I knew I wanted to be an actor so it would be great if I could make people laugh while I was doing this, because I could be other characters and other people, and I could hide behind things. It was a great out for me, and a mode of expression.

But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.