There's not much of a follow-your-dreams kind of vibe in New Zealand or my family.

I always like [while filming] to have a sense of what led this person to this point.

I really like 'Girls.' I know everybody does, but I love 'Girls.

Some scripts are pretty sparse.

I know my mother-in-law would drive two hours to go see a movie that I'm in.

I was a kid who didn't have a lot of self-esteem.

It's always nice for me to get to explore somebody who's feeling that and then does something with it and takes it in a different direction or does something with it. It feels very powerful. It helps me with my own.