It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

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.

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

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

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

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

I think that I have sold out sometimes.