I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.

I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.

With Edward Norton you'd never say, "This is the one we're going with whether you like it or not." It has to be agreed upon.

Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways.

Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.

I'm a Tulsa Jew and I have a religious upbringing.

People say you can't make movies about your politics or the environment. And, generally speaking, I completely divide those sides of my brain.