For Keeping the Faith, I looked at [George ] Cukor's old films like The Philadelphia Story, stuff that's hilariously funny and really smart with a cutting critique in the humor, too. With this, when I read it, I was laughing a lot.

I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass.

I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.

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

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label.

What has always been most interesting about acting to me personally is that it affords you the chance to shift gears, both in terms of the experiences you get to have through doing it, but also the different kinds of things you get to represent.