[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person.

Acting's difficult for me because I think you have to be passionately involved in what you're doing.

There's something in the very small minutia of life that tells us something about the big, big picture that we see every day all over the place, and so I think the more specific and creative and revelatory you are in the micro, the more powerful the macro will be.

My favorite thing about acting is being alone and going through the scripts and working on it and getting ideas and asking myself questions, looking outside myself for them and researching and getting to the bottom of something and being creative with it as an actor and how to express it in a creative fashion. That's my favorite part. And, the actual acting of it.

Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.

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

I got sober when I was 22 years old.