I am trying to impress myself. I have yet to do it.

And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap.

If you're trying to learn how to act from a class, you're analyzing the teachers' movements and their intricacies, and it becomes like a pantomime of you wanting to be them, and that's wrong. Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin. It's your own imagination, and your own version of it.

I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.

Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life, and I get frightened.

I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I'm dating or what drugs I'm on or what club I went to.

I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity.