I actually didn't read the book [Fast Food Nation]. I wasn't aware of it. But when I read the script, I thought "Wow." It became a project that was just so exciting to be a part of. Maybe a few times in a career [you] get a chance for a role that really means something, and this was it.

You do some things and you just hope people will laugh.

Mandy because that was the most meaningful relationship.

For me, I understood the gift of being able to empower others and to not do everything yourself.

I think at some point you have to empower others and really allow everyone else to do what they're hired to do and what they're brought onto the team to do.

Sometimes you're so nervous about piloting something that you could probably just not empower others to finish what they're supposed to.

I got hit twice in the face, and that was not fun.