When you play a character with power and energy, people lock into that and go, "Oh, this must be the guy."

John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous.

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters.

I grew up on the stage, where you just throw yourself into projects and don't get in your own way.

HBO does something that most networks don't do which is give a show a chance to find their voice.

Everyone's journey is completely different.