This guy [Edward Snowden] was a patriot. He believed very strongly in his beliefs and what he was doing for his country. So it was easy to tap into that and go, "OK, this is what this guy believes in."

People assumed that I would have everything handed to me, but that couldn't be further from the truth. I was on my own just doing the grind.

If I'm gonna play a character in a movie or if I want to be the lead of a film, you wanna carry the guy, you wanna get the girl, you wanna save the day or the world.

My old man is a man of few words.

I think you just learn a lot of stuff in general about all the stuff he [Edward Snowden] released. I think there's probably a lot that we don't know. That's what is really interesting.

Really I'm a fan of any movie, whether it's suspense, action, or comedy, anything that has a good story.

I thought this was pretty timely and it was pretty interesting [to film in Snowden].