American - Actor | June 2, 1979 -
I don't end up playing a lot of likable characters, so I find myself living in a lot of unlikable skin. As a result of that, I don't always feel good. I get a lot more catharsis from taking pictures or painting or making short films.
James Ransone
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I think all art - if it's good - is a result of really trying to create something that you can't put into words. Where language ends is where good art begins.
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I like theater; I just don't really like actors.
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Baltimore breeds a really specific type of weirdo. Animal Collective is from Baltimore. Dan Deacon, John Waters. There's a through line of weirdness and a hard edge that I see when I meet people from that area.
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Drama is easy to fool people with, but you can't trick people into laughing.
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'Generation Kill' was not a very glamorous shoot. For all intents and purposes, it was low budget, and all the money they had went to what you see on the screen.
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The characters I play always seem eerily appropriate to where I am in my personal life at the time, and if they're not, there always tends to be this notion that I should be learning something to apply to my own life from these people.
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I'm not going to say I'm really streetwise, but I might be more than most people.
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There is no external means, whether it's my career, or money or house or a wife or anything, that is going to set me right.
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I just auditioned for 'The Wire' like I just auditioned for any other job.
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Just because I try to read a lot of stuff doesn't mean I can fully conceptualize all of these intense, big, abstract ideas.
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There's a bunch of cities I'm not crazy about, but I love Chicago. I love the musical history - the mid-'90s indie rock scene, Chicago house music. It's a great town.
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