My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater.

There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike.

Actors are responsible to the people we play. I don't label or judge. I just play them as honestly and expressively and creatively as I can.

I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.

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

Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.

Ultimately, I think writing is a mixture of craft, inspiration, and being incredibly, courageously explorative with yourself - and being brutally honest, too.