I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.

We make a contract within ourselves as actors or directors or writers about how much of ourselves we let into projects. You can actually figure out before you work on something how much blood you will have to let emotionally.

I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in.

When you get to play with the big boys, your game improves drastically.

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see.

In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.