In that way, as an actor in particular, you're powerless. And so in that way as an actor in particular you can't make mistakes.

As a producer, you have an opportunity to see the whole and bring people together.

I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.

Most of the things that I learn are from the women in my life.

I fooled around with Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams got pregnant.

You have formal rehearsal, a lot of things you don't have in movies - which is, you have to formally rehearse. You have to know your back story, discuss it, and almost everybody onstage has to know each other's [story], so that when it comes time to actually do it, you can throw it all away. That's the way I like to - and I didn't realize until very recently - that's the way I like to prepare for movies.

I think that I have done work where I feel like I've challenged myself, and then what's even more confusing is I've done work where I think I've challenged myself and no one's responded to it, and no one's interested in it.