My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.

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

If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.

My mum is incredibly intelligent.

When you see the carrot at the end of the stick, what do you do to get it? These kinds of things that come up, that come up in the story of Capote writing "In Cold Blood," and when you see the movie, you'll see what I'm talking about.

Learning how to die is therefore learning how to live.

Frankly, I get much more sensitive about what's written about me than how I look in a photo. I'm so used to people seeing my image in plays and films that what they think about how I look is none of my business. If they says, "Hey, he doesn't look good," I'm like, Whatever, because I know I look different from day to day. But if you're up there putting your heart into something and people reject your performance, that's very painful. The written word can kick your ass.