Well, it's such an intricate, beautiful script about eight professional robbers pulling a heist, and it deals with elements of betrayal, trust, instinct, and need for relationships.

You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you.

What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better.

To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.

He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.

I've always found it not only easy, but enjoyable. It's necessary for us to reach out and I'm speaking for myself here. I certainly have a sense of responsibility to reach out to these people in the theatre who might look to someone like me for some guidance.

I don't think about those things, really. I work hard on everything I do. Everything is a struggle, everything is hard, everything is difficult.