I don’t even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor.
I went through puberty in a theme park. I’m grateful. That place was a landscape to me. I had adventures every day.
Women aren’t interested in being sexy any more and men are. All the guys have objectified themselves and sexualised themselves into being just matinee idols.
I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don’t think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It’s an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It’s this thing that’s looming, and you can control it.
I sometimes forget to have breakfast in the morning, but when I actually buy a box of cereal, I will probably eat it not only for breakfast but also as a snack later on.
Cars can have a hypnotic effect. You can get in a car and get out and not really remember the trip.
Acting isn’t that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.
I’m attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life.
I like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious reasons, but just in that that theres so much about what they bring to the scene that keeps it so interesting. Their instincts are so different, and they never explain them to you.
I like all kinds of movies, I love movies; and I always wanted to try and make one.
Freedom is such a gift.
If I eat a huge meal and I can get the girl to rub my belly, I think that’s about as romantic as I can think of.
A lot of people when they make movies, the actors act like it’s their journey and that everyone is on the set to facilitate their journey and the whole thing is set up that way – they ask if you want anything.
I tried to find something real in essentially something thats science fiction or something-for me, anyways-not having an experience like this.
The problem with Hollywood is that nobody works. They have meals. They go to Pilates. But it’s not enough. So they do drugs. If everybody had a pile of rocks in their backyard and spent every day moving them from one side of the yard to the other, it would be a much happier place.
I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I’m just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to.
It was more important to me to understand what its like to be this Jewish kid who felt he was so different at such a young age. I feel the story is about a kid who came to hate through love, so I felt I had to learn why he loved this thing so much that he also apparently hated it.
I’m waiting to get old – I think old guys with tattoos look good.
I try not to discriminate against genres.
I don’t like to be entertaining. I don’t like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it.