Nat Wolff

“I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.”

“I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not to say that jazz does not play a vital and important role in my life.”

“I have very weirdly realistic dreams where it could be real life, except it's not.”

“I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.”

“Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.”

“Paul Rudd is too perfect. He's super talented, super nice and super calm. I just think he's a robot.”

“When romance is done well in a movie, it's awesome.”

“'Holes' was my favorite book ever. So you know when you love a book and you hear it's being made into a movie and it makes you a little annoyed at first? But I would've loved to play the Shia LaBeouf role in that movie when I was younger. I just wanted to be the rebellious kid on the old digging camp.”

“If I'm not doing anything, I get really antsy and bored.”

“I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started banging around on the piano, trying to be like The Beatles.”

“I think Paul Weitz is a really amazing director, obviously with tons of acclaim and stuff, but I still think he is underrated. And I think he's amazing to work with, so I was super lucky.”

“I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.”

“Every single movie I go up for I'm just checking the phone to see if the e-mail's come in, to see if I got the part yet, which makes me more anxious.”

“I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brother's a drummer and I've always been jealous that he's such a good drummer. I always try to play but it's always kinda just bashing. I can keep time but no one really wants to hear me play drums.”

“I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.”

“Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.”

“I've been kind of lucky. I've always just kind of followed whatever my passion was, and that seems to have led me to better places than if I had followed some career trajectory, which I wouldn't even know how to start.”

“I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails.”

“It's just become such a business, getting into college. I see that a lot in my friends, their parents were so on top of them about getting into an Ivy League school since they were so young, they were just drilled and drilled and drilled, to the point that they just don't know why they want to go.”

“Paul McCartney and The Beatles in general are my idols. And I love Sting. I got to meet Sting. That was really cool. Dustin Hoffman is my favorite actor. Also, I think of Magic Johnson as an idol.”