I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah.

Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.

When you do a play, you have the kind of nightly feeling of accomplishment. But you also have the daily dread of the doing it every night. And because you're doing the whole thing every day, it's like climbing up the mountain every single night. With a movie it's like climbing the mountain very slowly, over months of filming.

I purposefully isolate myself from anything that has to do with any press. I don't read any press about myself.

I grew up in an apolitical household. I never left the country. When I became an adult, I started traveling and became interested in politics, and I probably talked about things in a silly, ignorant way.

As an actor, you have to be open to doing things where you look stupid, to be experimental.

The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.