I've Come To A Point Where I

When I Read The Book [the Adderall Diaries] I Loved It, And I Maybe Had An Inkling That There Was A Lot Of Good Material In There. I Didn't Quite Know At The Time How To Adapt It Into A Film, But I Hoped I Would Figure It Out One Day.

Villains Can Often Be One Note And I Would Say In That Case, It’s Not Fun To Play The Villain. It’s Fun To Play The Villain If He A) Has Dimension And B) The Villain Gets To Do All The Things In The Movie That In Life He Would Get Punished For. In The Movie, You’re Applauded For Them If You Do Them With Panache. And So That’s Why It’s More Fun To Play The Villain.

When I Was Younger, I Thought, 'ok, I'm Supposed To Do This Project Because It'll Help My Career,' But That Didn't Work Because I Ended Up Doing Movies That I Worked Really Hard On But I Didn't Really Like And They Didn't Turn Out Well, So It Was Like I Lost Double. Once I Just Started Working With People And Projects I Believed In, Everything Changed And I Suddenly Had A Career That I Loved And That I Was Proud Of.

The First Piece Of Art That I Ever Bought - When I Could Afford It - Was A Warhol Sketch From The Period When He Was Just Getting Out Of Doing Commercial Work And More Into Art. It's A Sketch Of A Young Guy's Face. I Guess The Gallery That I Bought It From Thought I Would Like It Because The Young Guy Kind Of Looked Like James Dean.

When I Started Writing After My Career As An Actor, I Knew That That Other Life In The Film Industry Would Be Pulled Into My Writing Life And That People Would See Me Not As An Author But As An Actor Starting To Write.