I start to get fixated on a story and a character and an idea, and at a certain point, I really want to do it. It's a compulsion to explore a specific thing, as opposed to a compulsion to direct, generally speaking.

If I'm trying to put size on for a role, then I don't do much running.

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.

Suspension of disbelief and that whole question is part of the heart of the 'Leaves of Grass'movie.

Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it's guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family.

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

No, I'm not a very methodologically pure actor.