The thing about cooking is it's so interesting to watch. I don't know why, but if you go to somebody's house and they're making something, they usually say interesting things while they're cooking.

As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.

There's an impression that actors make a lot of choices. I just take what's there.

When you're onstage and you know you're bombing, that's very, very scary. Because you know you gotta keep going - you're bombing, but you can't stop.

I suppose in order to succeed at something you have to be very persistent. I've never done that.

There are movies that I've made where I thought I was going to be good, but when it was cut it together it wasn't. And there are a lot of movies that, for one reason or another, just don't become popular. So to me it's always been a little bit of a roll of the dice. That's the way it goes.

If you do movies that are modestly budgeted, the way they finance them is they figure out how they can sell them.