I just never did buy this idea that you have to live in Los Angeles to be an actor. I didn't see that as a requirement in my job description.

You can't rewrite nothing, but you can rewrite 90 pages of sh*t. Now you've got your sh*t on the page, you can go work.

On indies it's hard to do, but in rehearsals, you make mistakes in rehearsal. It's really hard rehearsing a play or what rehearsal you get on any movie. That's where you get to make your mistakes, and you make big ones. So when you shoot [the movie] or you finally get the play in shape and do it, the mistakes are out of the way. If you're not afraid to make mistakes, then there is no writer's block or actor's block.

There are so many projects that you go into hoping the story works, and here comes a new third act and that kind of thing.

I don't watch dailies. I don't pretend not to read reviews, I just don't. I wait for it to come on the air, just like everybody else.

One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need much help.

I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.