I don't look to play people that are familiar. I look to play people that are different, challenge, unknown, foreign, and therefore scary.

Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?

You can't live in New York City and be the most important person in town; you just can't. There are too many other important people here.

When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking.

It's not that I'm using my life to put on screen or in my acting, it's that, when you're living in the world, you're exposed to stories, to people, to things that feel foreign and unfamiliar. And I'm curious about those things, me personally.

Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your political ideology.

I don't feel that my life, my professional life, is married to a reliance upon Instagram.