You really want to have a back-up plan, so when you don't feel like acting, or you're getting older and settling down, you can produce your own stuff. So that's when I set about forming my own company and getting creative control.

Everybody's vying for people's attention in terms of eyeballs, earholes, and dollars.

I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid.

With any actor, if you know your character well enough, you'll know pretty much what he would say under any circumstance, or whatever situation might rear its head.

I'm born and raised in the Northeast. My parents are Irish immigrants. So our tendency is to shy away from the big yellow ball that comes up in the sky every once in a while.

Don't buy the toys that make the noise!

I'm a lapsed Catholic in the best sense of the word.