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.

You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.

In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.

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

I just don't think most of us are aware how much of what we throw away ends up in the ocean, for starters. Plastic bags are among the worst. The US is actually falling behind the curve on that score. China and many other countries have already banned the production and use of thin plastic bags.

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

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.