When you're a kid, and you grow up, it takes some time for people to associate you with more things other than that initial thing.

I went to the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU and wrote and directed a small amount of stuff there.

I think a lot of actors will tell you that playing a villain can be more fun than playing the straight and narrow good guy.

One of the cool things about getting to audition for things on short notice is that it teaches you to memorize efficiently. So I've never been afraid of getting text down quickly.

Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along with mediocre drama more than they'll go along with mediocre comedy.

My parents are from the South - they were both born in Birmingham - so my dad saw R.E.M. really early on when they were playing college stuff in Athens. He had a bunch of their cassettes from the '80s, and when I was 8, 9, or 10, those were the sort of things that were around the cassette player in the living room.

Every character I approach, from 'Forrest Gump' all the way up to 'The Spoils Before Dying,' has a different set of requirements and always fascinates me.

People hear the examples of kids who work when they're young, have bad experiences, and then have a rough life after that, but a lot of it is just about the people around you.

One challenge in this industry is that you adopt a certain look for a movie, and then people don't get to see the movie for a year!

I try to steer away from doing something that's just commercial instead of sticking to a good script.