I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

The theater's a live thing, and film is, to some extent, a discipline where you're putting everything together and trying to execute something exactly. You do it away from people and then you present it at the end.

I've got an age that I do think of myself.

I'm just constantly trying to renew and give myself new challenges and push myself to uncomfortable places, trying to get better.

Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.

The medical operations are so challenging because they're so technical, as well. I assumed before we started that we would do the classic thing, when it comes to the operations, that we would do all of these inserts with real doctors.

I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script.