35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.

So I have this word for much of what I do in life: 'plorking.' I'm not playing and I'm not working, I'm plorking.

Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

Directing takes a lot of time.

When you start to engage with your creative processes, it shakes up all your impulses, and they all kind of inform one another.

It's like that perfection thing, trying to be that thing you're not. You have to feel that discomfort and not try to get rid of it. Accept that aspect and get into it. Acknowledge those feelings and let them be. You are who you are.