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Berlin is my favourite city.
I just love being in the U.K.
I have a hard time watching myself.
The film makers are the true movie stars.
When filming, I like to travel with an instrument.
I'm always in the theater seeing everything, good or bad.
When I receive a new role, I completely become my character.
I appreciate film actors who respect the film making process.
I got into acting to get my foot in the door for film-making.
One day, I'll stop making weird faces in pictures. But not today.
I want to be a good actor more than anything - someone you can respect.
When I was five I thought auditions were a great way to get out of school!
I’ve written a lot and brainstorm ideas, and I plan on pursuing them very soon.
When I'm back at home it's just reality. I kind of separate myself from Hollywood.
As you get older, there are different types of roles in people's lives at certain ages.
My ideal role would be the lead in a film with a director that I really appreciate and admire.
I’d say a man is someone who is honest, strong-minded, moral, genuine, just a good human being.
I really started acting when I was 12 when I was doing this television show called 'Jack & Bobby.'
I would add a little more love in the world. It's ridiculous, I know, but it is one thing I would do.
I know what it means to be Jewish, and I don't think someone who wasn't Jewish would really understand.
Life is a rollercoaster ride and I don't intend on being the one screaming and hanging on for dear life.
I'm just trying to find a good project. Work with a good director, someone I really admire. Find a good role.
I love learning from the filmmakers that I'm working with, but more importantly, I love learning from the crew.
I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous.
I'd say people that really inspired me at first were like, Dustin Hoffman, Jim Carrey... serious Jim Carrey though.
I would love to shoot on film, but you can't really shoot a lot of footage on film, and you can't print a lot of it.
It's like, to me, acting is like a child walking in the park, the better the actor, the greater the playground he has.
I love movie sets. It's another home for me. Movie theaters and movie sets - they're just the best places to be. I love them.
You're not really just a filmmaker that makes a movie good most of the time. It's everybody involved; it's a collective effort.
You would assume that a filmmaker should know how to edit, but pretty much every filmmaker I've worked with doesn't know how to edit.
My whole family is in orthotics and prosthetics, so I grew up having to check for scoliosis every week. 'Come over. Let me feel your spine.
My whole family is in orthotics and prosthetics, so I grew up having to check for scoliosis every week. 'Come over. Let me feel your spine.'
I don't really look around and say, 'I've made it.' I just look around and think how fortunate I am to work with the people I'm working with.
I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way to grow up and is kind of forced maturity.
A lot of times, when I'm approaching pre-production and my job, and trying to research and work on the script and whatnot it's always different.
I started studying filmmakers, and I would say early on the ones that really inspired me the most were like the field magicians of music videos.
Honestly, my character doesn't have much in common with Harry Potter besides the fact that he's an unlikely hero who's thrown into a huge situation.
Film is a collection of many mediums and collaboration and you're only as strong as the people you're working with - and everybody owns their mediums.
I'm doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower'. It was a book I read when I was younger, and it just changed my life, and I just wanted to be a part of it.
I'm doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower'... It was a book I read when I was younger, and it just changed my life, and I just wanted to be a part of it.
I'm in a position where - I mean, not a lot of people are in a very fortunate position - where I kind of have the power to choose what I want to do in a way.
A lot of times I'm on my own trying to find research material and things like that and trying to educate myself on the world and the film that I'm working on.
The idea of working with David Fincher or Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson or Scorsese or Spielberg or any of the guys I really idolize is a dream for me.
What you choose to do professionally is a reflection of yourself and I take that seriously as an actor. But even as a filmmaker, I take it even more seriously.
I did a commercial when I was, like, 5 or 6 years old for... what was it called?... Cabbage Patch Kids! That was the first thing I ever did. Little bit embarrassing.
I started doing roles and working with people that I really respected and became passionate about the art form of acting. And I'm still trying to figure it out. Still learning.
I just don't want to repeat the same thing over and over again, so I'm always looking for something that's going to be challenging and make me nervous every time I start a project.
Fun. I'm not the kind of guy kids picked on in school, but I've seen it happen. I've never really given much thought to being cool. I don't really think about it one way or the other.
Growing up, I had a very normal relationship with my brother and sister. But, over time, they became my best friends, and now I hang out with them all the time. I'm very close with them.
It's really interesting to observe each filmmaker's approach to filmmaking and I feel very fortunate to have worked with a lot of really interesting filmmakers and they all approach their job in unique ways.