I Don't Have Acknowledged Preferences Of Characters.

I Want To Be Able To Just Act And Never Do Any Interview, But I Don't Have The Balls To Stand Up To The Studio And Say, "i'm Never Doing Another Interview In My Life!"

I Went Backwards And Forwards Over It Until I Was 22. And Then In The Past Few Years I Began To Say To Myself, Ok, Look, I'm Not Messing Around. This Is Something I Want To Attack, Instead Of Thinking, I'll Just See What Happens With It.

Were All Conning Ourselves, One Way Or Another, Just To Get Through Life.

Dieter Dengler Was An Amazing Man. Who Knows What He Would've Been Had He Not Ever Been Tested In This Way? It's A Question That I Certainly Have Myself. What Would I Be Able To Do In Certain Situations? He Came Out, Obviously, Looking Like A True Hero, But He Didn't Go In Looking Like That. He Was Not Your Typical Image Of Somebody That You Would Think Would Be The Tough Guy Who Was Able To Endure. His Lighthearted Attitude, This Sort Of Dorkiness, And Naivete; It Ended Up Being The Finest Tool For His Survival.

The Blue Collar Milieu Was Something That I Really Understood And Resonated With Me And I Thought Was Underrepresented In American Cinema.