Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.

You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way.

I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

You have to have a personal connection. You have to really want to do it, because if you don't, investing yourself personally, your thoughts, your emotions, yourself into a part, is something you're not going to want to do as much.

To be loved, I think, is the thing that gets you up in the morning.

I would never not work on the part without it playing. That's what being an actor is. You use everything that's influenced you to help you get out of yourself or be more creative.