My freshman year (at Columbia) was the longest break I'd had from acting since I was six years old. When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing. When I moved to New York, I started to realize that I wanted people to see the stuff that I was doing, and I wanted it to mean something to them. A lot of people have told me Mysterious Skin meant something to them. And that meant the world to me.

The Lookout was by far the hardest thing I've ever done. Partially because both Brick and Mysterious Skin were four to five week shoots, and The Lookout was ni…

What does it mean, HIT RECORD? Different things. It can be a noun, a musical recording that sold a lot of copies. It can be a verb, to hit record, to start rec…

One of the hardest things about playing a soldier is kinda acknowledging that I've never done, and might never do anything that brave.

The Internet is an audience of one a millions times over.

Audiences always sound like they're glad to see me, and I'm damned glad to see them. If they want you, you want to do it.

I have no desire to prove anything by it. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance.