Timothee Chalamet

These are such First World problems, but there's a certain claustrophobia to New York. You don't escape in the East Village, but it at least feels full of camaraderie and youth - or full of camaraderie and youth in an East Village that is as full of Chase banks and Starbucks as the Upper West Side, or anywhere else in Manhattan.

I spent a lot of time in a small town in France, growing up.

I played the piano growing up and then stopped for 10 or 12 years.

My dad's French, and I spent my summers in France growing up. So I speak French fluently, and obviously, I speak English because I was raised in New York, and I grew up here.

My sister was in ballet growing up. I spent almost the entirety of 7 through 12 backstage at Lincoln Center, just running around, waiting for 'The Nutcracker' to end.

Learning the Italian was tough. I tried to really come at from a purist perspective, really learn the grammar, syntax and conjugations.

Sometimes, when you act with someone in an intimate capacity, you have to ask vulnerable questions to speed up intimacy - but that's artificial.

I naturally have a me-against-the-world mentality, and I've been fighting it since I was 13. It's felt like it's only gotten me in lonely, angry places.

I did a year at Columbia, and I just kind of floundered. Maybe it wasn't the right place for me.

I don't think enough people admit that there's just something fun about being in front of people. And that's not a self-centered, egotistical thing.

I miss the sense of belonging on a film as much as I did on 'Call Me By Your Name.'

I wouldn't be the actor I am without New York.