"It wasn’t hard for me to understand the kid. I still feel so connected and have such strong memories of being at that age where you see the bullshit in the world and want to know how you can address it, how can you maintain some idealism, and how to not become the same authority figures that you’re growing up around. This was an opportunity to kind of revisit that stuff. I think it takes real guts to do what Chris did, and even if there was recklessness involved, it’s the kind of recklessness we miss later when we’re settled in and wonder what we could have done with our lives."