When you're wearing jeans, there's a shift in your center of gravity.

I didn't want people to go out wanting to go tool up against the bad guys (and at impressionable ages). I said, don't shy away from the violence or pull back on this, commit to this.

If the project piques my interest and scares me a little bit, then it's got me hooked.

As an actor, I relish and delight in doing things that I'm not necessarily the demographic for. This is a demographic that is touching the psyche of a certain age group, facing the real internal questions of people who are going through rites of passage into adulthood. It's earth-shaking stuff.

You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.

For me, because I've had classical theater training, when people say, "Oh, my god, the play is amazing!," I'll never get to see it because I'm in it.

As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.