Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.

It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent.

Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece.

I don't think about the characters I choose to play, analytically or consciously.

I never want to feel like the way that I see it isthe only way. Sometimes mistakes happen and that's better than whatyou thought the scene could be. You allow room for the possibilities.

We both [with Jo Andres] think that it is really important to our culture that we support all kinds of music, all kinds of theatre and all kinds of art because you never know what moves people. We've always believed that there should be a strong voice outside the commercial world. Certainly, the commercial world has a huge place in our culture and we also support that - but, we also want to support the stuff that lives outside of that.

All the roles I play, I don't see any of my roles in films that they're typically leading men.