I am very much a seat-of-the-pants actor. I will prepare when I have to. But I like being unprepared.

I carry about eight lip balms: Burts Bees, Rosebud Salve, Eos.

The more you love something, the worse you tend to audition. If you don't really care about something, you kind of nail it.

With fantasy and sci-fi, it's based in a real fandom. You're presenting to experts, and their source material is really important to them.

Nothing I do is by design. It's always the result of a happy accident. I didn't have a career plan. It has just become the way it is. It's all good fun.

That scene in 'The Purge' where my kids, Mary's kids, are in danger was really crazy for me, because I suddenly I have my methods as an actor, so I went to the place of 'If somebody came near my children, with bad intent?'

Does our culture have a need for violence? I don't know. I guess it's a personal thing.