You don't get to pick your partners in families; you get assigned a seat at the table.

I don't think there's any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills.

There's no harmony in most people in a way, and I'm attracted to it, and I think it makes for good storytelling.

Everybody's family has problems.

I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role. Maybe I've just done enough of them now where people are like, "Oh, it's the guy that's in a swirling vortex of despair, send it to Kinnear!" I don't really know, but it does seem to be a recurring theme.

It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story.

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with this idea of opening a restaurant back in Indiana on a little pond. The guests would order their dinner and then take a little boat out with a colored flag on the front of it. When the matching color of the flag on their boat went up on a flag pole, their dinner was ready!