There's nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time.

There’s a period of time in your life when I kind of look back, and I’m like, was I happy, or was I just not aware?

You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.

I had insecurities and fears like everybody does, and I got over it. But I was interested in the parts of me that struggled with those things.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

When you think about [Truman] Capote in the - was what he did exploitative of a person's life or exploitative of these murders? You look at our culture now, you look at celebrity and how it plays out in our culture now, and Capote was one of the great PR men of his time.

Ultimately, all characters have some negative and positive energies. That's just how I see it. I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That's what interests me.