I find life so shocking in general. Everything about it surprises me..

I don't want to be a basket case on set. I try to sort of quiet all of that, all those thoughts, kinda just let yourself be aware of them when you're….

What I love about the way they both [Paul Thomas Anderson and Joaquin Phoenix] work is that all of the monkey business is on film. There's no monkey ….

It's weird. I feel like people assume if a character is very different than you, that means it's difficult to get into their head or into their skin..

Ive always wanted to play the villain. But the young girl is never the villain..

Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out..

I dont think Paul Thomas Anderson has a standard approach to anything..

I look back at my adolescence, and Im shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior..

I've never had to talk about my work, nobody's given a damn about it - you know, what I thought. I find that I sort of like that, to get to keep it t….

I didn’t find it difficult to live in the “Inherent Vice” world or play those scenes, because they just seemed so real..

So when things start going badly, you're invested in the characters in a way I think amplifies the horror and the fear because you're invested..

I thought acting was what grownups did. It was such a part of my childhood. I was already in love with performing before I knew there were other opti….

Seeing someone happy on set is just a very small slice of the reality of an actor's life..