A lot of times the characters I play tend to be kind of loners or they don't have best friends or best buddies.

My dad used to say, 'You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine,' and there's some validity in it. But honestly, even when I'm inside the machine, you still see me. I stick out a little bit.

Plenty of people are onto the emptiness but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.

People don't go to the movies to get the news, people don't go to the movies to learn a lesson. People go to the movie to get an emotional experience.

Everybodys constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than others.

It's a little bit odd. The first time you do the play, you kind of throw yourself into it, trying to get the most out of all the individual moments. Then, a few hours later, you're still there, wondering what you could possibly do differently than what you just did a couple hours ago.

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