We're living in an increasingly nationalistic, xenophobic time, and you can see it reflected in societies all over the world.

There's nothing so freeing as going to rehearsal and having that experience.

I recognized that I had a window of opportunity that had opened because of my exposure as an actor.

It just so happened that J.C.[Chandor] was a first-time feature director, and his script was exactly the kind of thing we were looking for.

Part of being a psychopath is an ability to dissociate from one reality and create another one, completely.

We did monologues and scenes, and New York I did a scene from Amadeus and a monologue from Pounding Nails in the Floor With My Forehead by Eric Bogosian, and then in L.A. I switched the scene to This is Our Youth and did the same monologue. I was spiky-haired, super skinny. A lot of people were like, "You should come here and do a sitcom." That was the feedback that I got. Obviously it was quite a different journey than the one I've actually had, but I just listened to people.

I think I integrated that over the first couple of years that I was out of school, mostly in auditions, to be honest.