Actor

My mom wouldn't let me do child acting.

I think now I'm more realistic, but I'm still very much an idealist.

Oh, I've been ridiculously lucky to work for, I'd say, five of the greatest directors of all time... and a lot of other great people, too.

I did my first film with Francis Ford Copploa, which spoiled the hell out of me.

My favorite one... it's hard to pick a favorite. But the one I really love a lot is 'A Serious Man.' I just love, love 'A Serious Man.'

I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff.

I'm glad that I had the upbringing I did where I was just part of what everyone else was a part of. And prom and all that.

It's funny: the reason I did 'Beautiful Creatures' was the same reason I did everything else - even though it was a genre film and existed at a more studio level, the script and the characters were so well written.

I remember pretending to be the characters in the movies when I was a little kid.

My parents weren't involved in show business, but my parents would show me. We'd watch old films in the house. Little film festivals of Westerns and stuff like that when I was a kid. I knew I wanted to be those guys in those movies before I knew what being an actor was.

I made short films in school.

I find it remarkable. It's surreal for me that I've gotten to work with so many people who are not only great filmmakers but whose films have had such a direct effect on me.

I just can't imagine having to do an accent all the time - like, in your whole career.

I just really want to continue to play those roles where I really have something to do, and mainly, above all, work with people that I can learn from - directors I think are so great.

I really don't know what it's like in 'Twilight,' but I know in the young-adult genre, there are these cold, aloof guys. If you start thinking that's the ideal guy when you're 13, by the time you're 25, you're going to have had some seriously bad relationships.

I don't have social media, and I'm not, I guess, that adept at being on the Internet.

Each film and each character is a completely new set of challenges. It doesn't feel like you can rest on something you may have done well in the past.

My mother always cultivated my imagination from the time I was very little.

I remember when I was 13 and telling people I wanted to be an actor, and being met with, 'Have fun waiting tables,' so I figured maybe that's not such a great idea after all.

One of the beautiful things about being a part of 'Star Wars' is that it's one of those few things that are community-building in that way. Maybe that way of putting it is a little self-important. But it is something we all have a connection to, something everybody knows about. There aren't that many of those things.