I'm a big Philip Roth fan. I think "American Pastoral" is the great American novel of the past 30 to 40 years. It's a novel about what happened in the 1960s, and I think America is still dealing with what happened then. It's devastatingly sad.

I also watch a lot of really bad television when I'm writing, "Like Dancing With the Stars," with my daughter.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them.

People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.

Becoming an actor made me way more interested in plot.

Feelings come and go, unless you don't feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird.