It's hard to find scripts that know what they are from page one to page 115.

I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural to me. So I don't take it for granted... What I think is my natural ability - which is writing - I think I totally take that for granted.

Maybe with "Californication" the character was partly based on Rick Moody. I read him and Jay McInerney, the templates for this bad boy novelist.

Humility is considered an un-masculine quality.

You can go through life and actually speak your mind and do it in an articulate fashion and with a really intelligent point of view.

One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.

I think [kids] enjoy reading, but it's a different world now. There are a lot of competitors for the imaginative attention.