When you use a dialect, you worry that the people you're imitating will think you're making fun of them.

I am in an age group where it is rude to discuss money, and now it is all anyone cares about.

Before I moved into the mainstream of American movies, I wrote a script as an experiment. I wanted to get very far away from the clichés about the three-act play - structure, development.

Children give your life a resonance that it can't have without them.

Comedy is more difficult. You can look at scenes when you're doing a drama like, “Maybe it works,” but in comedy, when you're doing it, either it works or it doesn't. You have to keep doing it until it does, and the requirement is more.

The less people know about me, the easier my job is.

Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.