I had a real feeling of being fated to be an actor and do my work, and I remember so much speaking up in a room full of people who authentically knew as much or more than me, and feeling like I was absolutely equal, and what I had to say was important.

When we do something we're not proud of, a lot of people don't want to look at that, people may say "what people don't know won't hurt them."

Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.

I've worked with a lot of really famous people. It stops being weird really quickly. For me, at least.

I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!

I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.

Wildlife was the only thing we've written together with Paul Dano. It's based on a book by this author Richard Ford, who just published a memoir about his family that's really wonderful. Paul fell in love with his book, and we optioned it ourselves, and he took a first pass at writing it. He asked me for notes, and then our note session devolved into an argument really quickly.