A lot of people meet me and they're like, 'Why aren't you crazy?'

I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book.

I lead a simple life. I feed the fish. I walk the dogs. I cook dinner. Occasionally I take a meeting.

As a senior in high school, you figure out what you want to do with your life. I asked myself if I wanted to get back into acting and thought: 'Yes, but under my own terms and nothing like it was before.'

I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things.

I'd made enough made money by the time I was 12 to never work again, so it's not about a big pay check with me.

It's about finding unique, one-of-a-kind films that I would want to see myself. I think Party Monster is one of those.