Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.
You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else.
If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.
I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
But my family's really close and I was interested in what Mommy and Daddy did for a living. So when Mommy and Daddy had a script that wasn't totally age inappropriate, they would let me read it. And we would talk about it.
I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.
If I'm not working, I don't feel complete.
I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.
You can have a wonderful time doing a movie and believe in it completely, and then you see the final product, and it doesn't look anything like what you thought it was going to.
I can work a lot faster when I'm writing a screenplay than when I'm writing a play because, if I'm having a problem with a scene or something, I can just be writing it in a way where there's no dialogue, or find a way to make sound do the work that I want to do or a close-up do the work that I need to do.
Historically, art and music and writing and film have been one of the only tools that is effective against tyranny.
Turning 30 changed me in ways I didn't expect. For the very first time, I felt like my life is valuable. Not my life because I'm putting something good into the world or I'm well-respected in my field, but my life as a human being on this planet for a limited amount of time.
I want to derive pleasure from this planet and put pleasure back into it.
I will be a broken record for justice.
I do feel like I have the superpower of not caring about my body as an actor.
It was very hard for me to come back to a place of feeling normal about food and about my body. And then, when I came to the other side of it, it felt like something was gone. An exorcism. I still experience the same chemical swings and moods and pain, but I'm much better at dealing with it than I was at 18.
I'm a very serious person. Unfortunately, sometimes.
I don't want to do every independent film offered to me.
