We're Living In An Increasingly Nationalistic, Xenophobic

We Did Monologues And Scenes, And New York I Did A Scene From Amadeus And A Monologue From Pounding Nails In The Floor With My Forehead By Eric Bogosian, And Then In L.a. I Switched The Scene To This Is Our Youth And Did The Same Monologue. I Was Spiky-haired, Super Skinny. A Lot Of People Were Like, "you Should Come Here And Do A Sitcom." That Was The Feedback That I Got. Obviously It Was Quite A Different Journey Than The One I've Actually Had, But I Just Listened To People.

I Met Glenn [ Greenwald] Briefly In 2009. We Were Both Guests On Real Time With Bill Maher. I Was The Show's Guest And He Was On The Panel. But This Was Before The Snowden Stuff Happened. I Didn't Have The Opportunity To Meet Him In Preparation For The Movie, Unfortunately, For Various Reasons. But I Was Able To Dive Into The Main Articles He's Written, And Interviews With Him, And Just The Function That The Character Serves In The Movie, That Was Enough For Me.

I Went Away To This Summer Program After My Junior Year Of High School. They Used To Have This Thing Called The Governor's School, And They Had It For Different Disciplines - Science, Math, Performing Arts. I Auditioned And I Got Accepted, And It Was An Eight-week Program Away From Home. I Went For Acting. I Was 15, And I Turned 16 While I Was There, So That Was A Seminal Moment For Me. It Made Me Realize The Life Of It, The Discipline Of It, And The Joy Of That Discipline, Where It Was All We Did.

I Think The Goal Is Always To Go Deeper Within Myself, And Accept Myself On Deeper Levels And To Know Myself On Deeper Levels. Whether Or Not I Look For Roles That Are Going To Do That For Me, I Certainly Look For The Ways In Which The Roles I Get Can Do That For Me.

I Probably Get Eight Straight Hours Of Acting In An Entire Season Or Two Seasons Of Suits. It's Broken Into Such Small Pieces.