I’m not into music – the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.
I feel things can always be funny, but that’s probably because I have some kind of leftover childhood need to make people laugh. For somebody like me, that’s the thing you excel at.
Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won’t accept.
In acting class, you’re trained to express yourself as much as you can.
My hope is to never act again and just do press.
The happiest moments for me, creatively, are doing readings of a play around a table where there’s no audience.
I don’t attribute an actor’s great success to their own individual performance when it’s something as collaborative as a movie.
The more people say nice things about me, the more I feel it’s false.
I live in New York City, where, if you’re in a movie at a popular independent theater, you think you’re king of the world, because you’re in a bubble. So there’s no way for me to properly conceive of the attention that the movie gets in a way that doesn’t make me confused.
Often times, being in a popular thing means that you have to compromise your own acting.
No one should be offended – that’s not my style.
When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you’re given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.
I find it very difficult to do normal things without getting approached.
Everyone’s a geek in some way or other. Everyone’s an outsider.
I feel like when I was 13 and I had to go to bar mitzvahs every weekend. This is the same feeling. You have to put on a suit every weekend to go meet with a bunch of Jews.
I grew up in an apolitical household. I never left the country. When I became an adult, I started traveling and became interested in politics, and I probably talked about things in a silly, ignorant way.
I just can’t – I can’t exist in normal group situations. A classroom, where you have to sort of jockey for position, compete for attention – I would just withdraw.
Acting is a weird profession. It’s very disquieting, and at the time it just made me so confused. It’s only when you step away from a movie for several weeks or months that you start to put things in perspective.
Where I feel something that I had written was misinterpreted in a way that made people feel bad, that is absolutely horrifying to me. I feel so embarrassed and I feel ashamed that I should make people feel bad.
Poor people are gross and they ’smell bad.