I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work.

Sometimes when I pick up a book off the shelf, when I'm buying a new book to read, I'll look at all of them and they all have the exact same words inside, but I'll think that one is meant to go home with me. I'll never pick the first thing off the shelf, I'll always go one behind.

If you can create an environment where people are invited to do their best work and the best ideas always win, then the project itself will win.

I love that there's a beginning, middle and end to a film and you can craft what the whole journey is going to look like.

One of the things I've started doing lately is tracking my dreams. I feel like there's a lot of information there and you can really bring those emotions to the situations that may feel mundane or familiar. That gives them new life and gives you a new relationship with it - if that makes any sort of sense.

Well, I made an announcement to my family at 8 that I wanted to be an actor, and I focused like a laser beam on it. I never had a fallback plan.

I never thought that I would be so attracted to television, but I don't think gigs like 'Dexter' come along too often.