I like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious reasons, but just in that that theres so much about what they bring to the scene that keeps it so interesting. Their instincts are so different, and they never explain them to you.

Freedom is such a gift.

It was more important to me to understand what its like to be this Jewish kid who felt he was so different at such a young age. I feel the story is about a kid who came to hate through love, so I felt I had to learn why he loved this thing so much that he also apparently hated it.

I've been doing this since I was 12... I don't want to act much longer; I can't do one thing my whole life.

The problem with Hollywood is that nobody works. They have meals. They go to Pilates. But it's not enough. So they do drugs. If everybody had a pile of rocks in their backyard and spent every day moving them from one side of the yard to the other, it would be a much happier place.

I tried to find something real in essentially something thats science fiction or something-for me, anyways-not having an experience like this.

I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.