There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and every day is different. It's all rather chaotic.

Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine!

I think I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention. It's not the way people talk in life at all.

Who says one instance of writing has anything in common with another instance?

After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn't think the acting was going to go on and on.

I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What if my niece or nephew wandered into the theater and saw the movie? I don't want to be too ashamed of it.

In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.