In my work I try to get things right, to do it well, and if there are specific skills involved - like in a case conducting or playing the piano, or in this film I have coming up where I play a character who is German - I'm very meticulous about learning accents and dialects and those kinds of things. That's probably the closest I come to being a perfectionist.

I actually have a degree in music and was aware that music was a tool used in therapy. I didn't realize how far it had come since I was in college in the mid-seventies.

People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adulthood.'

I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.

Collaborative is my favorite word in moviemaking.

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

If you're lucky enough to have a parent or two alive, call them. Don't text, don't email. Call them. Listen to them for as long as they want to talk to you.