The Oscar nomination is great. It's a great pat on the back. And I like that.

I've worked with a lot of first-time directors who kind of look to me for ideas and opinions and stuff, and I'm a team player.

It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed.

I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.

It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.

My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life.

Execution is everything.