“I had been working early in my life in films – since I was 11.”

I knew I was happy when I was dancing.

Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young.

They didn’t really have a choice because I got jobs acting before anyone could really say anything.

I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

We make a contract within ourselves as actors or directors or writers about how much of ourselves we let into projects.

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing.

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.

I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.

I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful.

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

I want to present interesting stories that don’t qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.

America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see.

I have quite good general knowledge and I had a very drilled education from an early age. I do know more than most people.

The ones I am going to have to really work hard on early in the game to get what I want.

In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.

I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.

I don’t mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.

A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.