I don't know if you've ever seen some of the Sidney Lumet movies, like Dog Day Afternoon [1975] or Network [1976]. They're real events that happen in real time, and there are all of these different characters experiencing the same thing in different parts of the movie ... I am so bad at explaining my films. But it's in the world of finance and the world of media, and how they connect. It was a big undertaking. A big, mainstream movie, which stars Julia Roberts and George Clooney. But for me, it's really just a small story about character and people.

Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.

I will always love psychology, and the basis of psychology is family.

I did a couple of plays in junior high school, maybe high school, and then I did a play in college.

Just to set the record straight, a salary for a given on-screen performance does not include the right to invade anyone’s privacy, to destroy someone’s sense of self.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.