A friend of mine told me, you know your obsession with girls who talk like sexy babies? You have to put that into your script.

If I'm going to pour that kind of love and energy and sweat and heartache, all that juju into something, I'm going to lean into my own projects before someone else's.

I get really restless if I'm not working. I generate or try to generate my own stuff. I'm constantly on the prowl for working with the people I love and respect.

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 wrote an entire movie [Man up] about how important I think voices are, so it was funny.

I had had a huge background in the nuance of the accent because I went to drama school in England for four years.

I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.