Nothing is harder than working with an actor who doesn't take it seriously or show up in the same way that you are.

I don't watch the movies I've been in. I try to stay as little aware of the final product as possible, because my job doesn't really change.

The old cliché in theater is, if you’re nervous, pick up a prop, which will immediately take you outside of your mind.

If you look at the movies that come out, most of them are bad, so it's not as if achieving some level of success means you get offered better roles, because frankly they don't seem to exist.

When you're acting in a movie, you never consider the reception of it. It's impossible to predict how something will be received. Even if you think it's the greatest thing in the world, other people might not like it. Or agree with it.

I made the mistake of writing something very, very short about Obama for this website that I write fiction for and my father told me never do that again. And he was right. I have nothing to add to a political conversation because it’s not my area.

I meet people who are in movies, and the stuff that they write is terrible, but nobody tells them that because they're famous. So I worry that my stuff might be like that, too.