I listen to music cinematically. I think about music and how it would make me feel when it's put to an image, a moving image, and I love it.

As an actor, you're afforded these experiences that are once-in-a-lifetime for so many people. More often than not, you can't tell the seasons based on the changing of the leaves, but on the experiences you've had.

For violent people to make themselves vulnerable, and then to have that vulnerability be used against them, bad things can happen.

I find that I have no problem getting a table at a restaurant when I walk in.

I have a bit of a bucolic kind of upbringing, and so I certainly bring an amalgamation of different people that I've met over the course of my life, especially before moving to Los Angeles, so I guess my childhood was my homework in a lot of ways for Harlan County.

Art is not created in a vacuum. That experience is something to be shared with a group of people, and to be moved in that way.

Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of quiet. I just watch the politics and how everything unfolds. It's kind of like going to a new high school. You want to see who everyone is before you introduce yourself, really, to kind of make friends. I think any smart person does that in social situations