There are a lot of funny people and a lot of unfunny people. Some of them are women and some of them are dudes.

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.

I'm in full transparency here of "Yeah, I'm trying to find my financing."

The most difficult thing about acting and directing in a film is acting and directing in a film. Every ounce of your physical and emotional being, and your analytical and thoughtful and producorial being, is being exercised at all points. You are 100% working on overdrive, but because it is only for X amount of days, if you have the stomach for it, you hustle through. It's a massive undertaking, and I think preparation is the key to success for that endeavor.

I worked with an amazing dialect coach named Jill McCullough. We did Skype sessions while I was shooting "No Escape" in Thailand, actually. So three times a week I would have long, two-hour sessions with her just working on the nuance of the accent, which I had had a huge background in because I went to drama school in England for four years.

I vowed to never use my American accent, and I didn't. Even going to get the paper in the morning to buying milk down at the shop, getting a cab, wherever.

I completely bombed the audition... I was insecure, stopping and starting. I went to the bathroom and cried.