I have read a thousand screenplays, and I have acted in a handful of them, and I have felt when it feels good, the writing, and it feels natural, and feels funny or sad or honest or whatever it may be. You connect. And I felt when it feels like writing, when it feels stale, or when it feels artificial or forced, or too theatrical or whatever.

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Sad Good Funny

Never stop taking risks. Just keep reaching.

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Us Top Taking Risks

Smoking is gross.

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Smoking OK King

I love all my fam. I have quite possibly the best dad, mom, and sister in the world.

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Mom Love Family

I never have cash on me.

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Never Me Ever

I'm not equipped for the social media thing.

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Thing Thin T

I have numerous clear glasses at home. I probably have thirty pairs. I think it started for acting. I have tons of clothes that just sit there. But if that one role comes up, I'm going to want that shirt. And I have glasses for that, too.

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Home Art Want

Marriage, for whatever reason, has always both interested and terrified me.

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Marriage Age Whatever

I love New York.

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Love York New York

So many limits in Catholic high school! I'm not a bad Catholic, but everything was off-limits.

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Very Thing Thin

When I'm on a second date with a girl, I'll ask myself, 'Can I marry this person?' And we're just trying to decide between salmon and chicken.

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Yin Wit Us

Making music and writing kind of come from the same creative place.

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Music Writing Us

People-watching in New York while listening to Bach is kind of amazing.

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Amazing York While

I'm just a guy who wears TOMS. It's the sad truth.

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Truth Sad Who

One summer, my friend and I went to summer camp, and I acted in some plays there, and I fell in love with it.

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Love Wit Ted

I never got why actors don't like it when a fan comes up to them on the street. It is cool that someone recognizes what you do and makes you feel like you live in a community.

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Cool You Why

I put a song out for fun, from 'Lucky Them'... I wrote another one called 'Love Song.' I really liked that.

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Love Wrote UN

In terms of directing, there's a number of directors who definitely had a great impact on me, Woody Allen certainly being one of them.

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Great Woody Allen Woody

I think I'll always prefer theater to working in front of the camera. It seems a more distilled form of the craft.

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Work Working Ways

I think all of us could play the teacher because we all grew up with teachers. It's just kind of this peeking-over-the-shoulder presence that we've all grown up knowing.

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Teacher Wit Wing

If I couldn't act, I'd really love to try music.

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Music Love Us

I play the guitar and the piano and have a group of guys who I play with. They're uber talented.

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You have to figure out 'who am I?' 'What do I want to do?' 'What do I want to say?'

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I wore glasses my whole life, but then I got Lasik eyeball surgery, and I fixed that.

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People really give you a hard time when you wear fake glasses out to a bar.

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It's a luxurious complaint to have as an actor, but playing the same character for many years can become routine.

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Nobody's perfect, but my dream gal would be intelligent. That's really sexy to me. And kindness is also really, really important. And spontaneity - being open to whatever comes.

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With an independent film, you have a little more freedom, and you also have less money, so you're sort of struggling to get it done, to get something that works. With a big studio, everything is there for you, and it's easier.

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Mick Jagger was a lightning bolt of strange talent sent from above.

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I have read a thousand screenplays, and I have acted in a handful of them, and I have felt when it feels good, the writing, and it feels natural, and feels funny or sad or honest or whatever it may be. You connect. And I felt when it feels like writing, when it feels stale, or when it feels artificial or forced, or too theatrical or whatever.

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I've been on a lot of sets, and I've been around a lot of directors, and I've been working for many years now, but stepping in the shoes of being the decision maker and the guy that everybody is relying on at some point, yeah, it was challenging for sure. One thing is that you're responsible for a large group of people.

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Jon Bokenkamp is awesome.

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I wouldn't say I handle attention well. I'd say I stumble over pick-up lines poorly. I'm not good at any of that.

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I've been a 90-year-old man since I was 12 years old.

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Doing a film with somebody who's from a different country or culture than you is very fulfilling because they bring with them different insights, experiences, cultural norms, and expectations. All of those things can sort of broaden your own understanding of things or provide a different perspective.

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