Everything I've written up to now, hasn't had anything to do with my life really.

I don't even know if people are familiar with my name as an actor. It's not as if I ever was an über-famous actor.

I took a lot of writing courses.

Certainly, for me, and it's gone this way on every project I've worked on, the "writing" never ends until you're done with the movie.

People that work at the White House, they stay forever and love the job. Someone asked me, "Was there really a butler that was there for 40 years?" I said, "No, they're all there for 40 years."

I spent so many years of my life as a stage actor and when you do all these plays, a lot of really great plays are very politically driven. They deal with deep social issues, and that's the kind of stuff that I love, as an audience member.

I was a volleyball player as a kid. I played volleyball all the time.