For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different.

I think in L.A., in terms of the music scene, it's a really strange place. It's really hard to get the feeling that something's happening, or the feeling that something can make it out of there.

Your crew becomes your family and you trust the director and the other actors on the set, and it's a very safe place.

Even though New York may be a more inspiring city, I get more inspired thinking of L.A., in a way. My life there was so much more simple in mind, and quiet.

When I was a teenager, if you'd asked me, I would have said I was in a relationship with New York City. It was my first real love.

I think children in general have a very hard time - at least I did - expressing any pain because I didn't want to hurt the people that I loved.