At the end of whatever we're doing, I always feel like I want to go back and start over again because now I have a better sense of what it is. I feel that with everything. Like, if you're doing like a long run of a play and you're doing it seven shows a week, at the end of it, I want to go back and start from the beginning.

Yeah, September 11 happened and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.

I always found something strangely paternal about the director-actor relationship. Actors want so much approval.

I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.

At the end of whatever we're doing, I always feel like I want to go back and start over again because now I have a better sense of what it is. I feel that with everything. Like, if you're doing like a long run of a play and you're doing it seven shows a week, at the end of it, I want to go back and start from the beginning.

In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.

I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.